Another networking problem

[Mark Haney]

John French wrote:

> That's fascinating !  I had been pinging from Windows with just the 
> hostname (E50, etc.), and that worked. If I use the FQDN, it goes off to 
> 67.215.65.132.
> 
> /etc/resolv.conf on my Hardy server reads :
> 
> domain		tow.org.uk
> nameserver	192.168.0.1							
> 
> 
> /etc/resolv.conf on my Intrepid desktop reads :
> 
> domain		tow.org.uk
> nameserver	208.67.222.222
> nameserver	208.67.220.220
> 
> John
> 						
> 
> 

Windows, uses NetBT to do name resolution via the hostname.  It will 
also query DHCP for those hostnames (not FQDN,  which it recognizes as 
an internet name).

I would setup DNS internally for this and make the DHCP leases unlimited 
so that the IPS don't change on the hosts.

Or, you could just make the IPs all static internally.


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Mark Haney
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