DNS-Error:Server can't resolve clients hostnames

[WebReactor Networks]

I'm a little out of my league here, but I'll take a shot at it anyway.

Is the DHCP server properly informing the DHCP clients of who their DNS
server is?  Also, is the DNS server allowing the DHCP clients to update the
zone in question?

I believe that Win9x cannot do DDNS updates themselves; the DHCP server must
update the DNS for them.  You need to configure DHCP to issue the updates to
the DNS, and configure BIND to accept updates from the DHCP server (which is
localhost, according to your description).

Including your named.conf might help as well.

Hope this helps.  - John R. S.


> From: "Thomas Stadel" <mail at thomas-stadel.de>
> Organization: T-Online
> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.protocols.dns.bind
> Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 14:45:58 +0100
> To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org
> Subject: DNS-Error:Server can't resolve clients hostnames
> 
> 
> hello everybody,
> 
> i'm using a redhat 7.2 linux box as a server in my lan (2 win9x, 2 win 2k
> and 2 win xp clients). all clients get their ip-addresses from the
> dhcp-server on the linux-box.
> every machine can ping the others by their respective ip-addresses. BUT:
> although all clients can ping the server by name (probably due to samba
> being configured as a WINS server), the server always returns "unknown host"
> when pinging the clients by name. nslookup on the clients also fails.
> i've tried setting up 2 master-zones (one for forwarding and one for
> reversing) using the bind8-module for webmin, but it didn't solve the
> problem.
> 
> i'd appreciate any help you can give
> 
> 
> 
>