Our company has a Win2000 Domain server which has DNS and DHCP services. I have installed dhcpcd on our Debian Linux machines (PowerMac G4, PowerBook Pismo and a P133 machine) and they obtain the IP address and gateway from the Win2000 server without any problems. The problem I have is that the DNS *is* being automatically updated for the Win2000 clients but *not* for the Linux machines. I can't work out why.
Does the dhcp client on the Win2000 clients work differently to the Linux dhcpcd ? Is it a Win2000 server problem ? Does it use WINS + DNS when using Win2000 clients and pure DNS when using the Linux dhcpcd client ? I know very little about Win2000 and next to nothing about WINS. Can anyone suggest a solution to get dhcpcd working on the Linux machines so that the Win2000 server updates its DNS automagically. Thanks, Brendan Simon.
