Using Solaris 8 with DHCP Client causes DNS failure
2007-12-24 20:33:00
see my DNS server even though that same server
provides DHCP info.
Environment: I have Win98 runing Internet Connection
Sharing which works fine with other Win98 notebooks
desktops etc and even RedHat Linux 7.1. It provides
IP allocation and name service as needed for any of my
home systems except my SS 10.
The SS 10 has dual Ross 90s, 128 Meg of RAM, built-in
10baseT NIC. DHCP is mostly working but even though I
can query the DHCP server for its DNS server and get
an expected return of 192.168.0.1 I cannot get
nslookup to work with that IP address. Again, RH
Linux will work with that IP address for DNS.
DHCPinfo shows the following for the DNS server:
# dhcpinfo -i le0 -c dnsserv
0xC0
0xA8
0x00
0x01
This works out to the above IP address.
Mods: I have modified /etc/default/dhcpagent to
include ",6" on the command line it sends to the DHCP
server with no change. I force the DHCP hostname
processing to use /etc/nodename instead of "unknown"
as the hostname. I added "primary" and "wait 45" to
/etc/dhcp.le0 with no change.
Verified assumptions: pings work in all directions,
Win 98 DHCP is actually supplying good IP addresses to
both Solaris and Linux, the expected dns-related files
in /etc are in place, ie, resolv.conf and
nsswitch.conf.
Any suggestions other than the obvious one of
switching from Solaris 8 to Linux?
Thanks
Lee
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