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by highorbit

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I have a little problem with Dynamic update. Most of it is fine and works without problem.

Before I start it's Win2K DHCP and Bind DNS.

Most of the computers on the network (mainly Win 2k Pro) don't appear to have a fully qualified domain name. Which means they are not registering full records (ie they register an address-to-name, but not a name-to-address).

The DNS domain name option is set in DHCP, but Win2K doesn't appear to append this to it's host name.

Any one know any way Ican make it append automatically? Don't particularly want to walk around them all and do it!!

Cheers

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by pan 13 x

sounds as though your active directory store is corrupt or dhcp is not complete.
is active directory you should have both dns domain name and dns servers listed.
If both Items are set under server options , then I would recommend rejoining the domain from the computers having problems.
also look in the tcp/ip proerities ,advanced, dns there you will see a selection to register this connection and use this coonections dns suffix in dns registration

by highorbit

Sorry... forgot to mention. Not using Active Directory at all. The domain itself is still controlled by NT 4.0.

I am aware that I can change the setting on each computer, but I was wondering if this could be done from DHCP. All I found on support is something about Option 81 (client FQDN). But that doesn't appear on the DHCP options.

by cportman

Easy answer
WinNT doesn't do Dynamic DNS registration. Upgrade your DHCP server to Win2k and things should work much better.

Also I would drop that bind dns server if you want less problems.

cp

by highorbit

DHCP & WINS servers are Windows 2000. Dynamic update is working. But all registrations are missing part of the name to make it a FQDN.

i.e. a computer called stoofer registers itself in DNS with a PTR record. However it won't register an A record because the FQDN lacks the appropriate zone.

I'm keeping BIND though... I like it... it's cheaper than Win 2K!

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