>> (because it supplies the correct info for non-Plan 9 hosts). > >What info did your hosts need that Plan 9's dhcpd didn't supply?
Specifically, Plan 9's dhcpd does not supply a context-specific DNS suffix (ie, default domain name), which Windows systems need in order to resolve hosts by short name. That is, if my internal DNS zone is home.local, and I have a system ns2.home.local, if dhcpd doesn't tell a Windows box that it's dns suffix should be home.local, then it will be able to resolve ns2.home.local, but not just ns2. I looked at the dhcpd code, but it was easier to just have ISC dhcpd do the work on a FreeBSD system, since I already had it set up. Plan 9's DNS does what I need it to (except the dynamic updates) and was easier to set up than BIND. Thanks! -Ben
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