DHCP lookup?
phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu
phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu
Thu Mar 7 17:18:22 UTC 2002
Gerold Schweikart <gerold at mail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> is there a way to check from a PC, if the settings for a manual DHCP
> client are ready to be taken from a client, somehow a kind of
> DHCP-lookup?
Well, this is most likley the wrong forum.
When I want to use a specific address i feel it faster, safer and
more predictable to _configure_ that address to a pc
( as opposed to get tangled in qip, a product that never made any
sense to me personally )
> There are a lot of manual DHCP clients which will change the subnet.
> When I switch them on to early in the new subnet, they might get a
> dynamic address instead of the manual address.
> Problem is, that DNS database is earlier up to date than the DHCP
> database.
> For example nslookup shows already the new settings, but when i switch
> on the device it get's a dynamic address and not the reservated one.
> Configuration:
> ==============
> DHCP/DDNS: Lucent VitalQIP 5.2
> Clients: WinNT 4.0 SP5, Win95, HPJetdirect
> Thanks for any suggestion.
> Gerold
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