how to add edubuntu to MS DNS?

john lists.john at gmail.com
Mon Aug 6 17:31:06 BST 2007


Yes,

Thanks you are right of course Gavin.

John

On 8/3/07, Gavin McCullagh <gmccullagh at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 03 Aug 2007, john  wrote:
>
> > I want to be able to ping my edubuntu server from Win AD DNS. I can
> > ping windows machines via FQDN from Linux but not the other way
> > around. Can someone point me in the right direction?
>
> I presume this is because your windows machines are using DHCP and the
> PDC runs dynamic DNS.  Every time a client gets an ip address it gives back
> its name and a DNS entry gets registered.
>
> Your edubuntu server should probably have a static ip address so you really
> need to login to the PDC and create a DNS entry by hand.
>
> Gavin
>
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