Win XP as Bind client

V@dim vadimg at sacura.net
Sat Feb 7 07:58:14 UTC 2004


In my office is FreeBSD server and Windows Xp clients.
On FreeBSD pc is DNS (bind), Apache, Squid, ... .
On my home pc i want configure also FreBSD server, wich I
have installed in VMWare Virtual Mashine under Windows XP.
I have configured bind, resolv.conf, rc.conf the same as
my office freebsd server. But i can't understand one thing.
Any my office windows xp client:
1. Lan settings -> DNS is FreeBSD pc IP
2. DHCP is off.
3. DNS suffix is empty.
For example office domain's name is office.net and server name is serv.
 From my office xp client i can:
1. ping serv.office.net
2. ping serv
My home xp pc i have configured same as in office.
For example my home domain's name is home.net and server name is hserv.
 From my home xp client i can only ping hserv.home.net, i can't ping
hserv without domain name. Why? Help to solve this problem.

=========== my home named.conf ==================

options {
    directory   "/etc/namedb";
    pid-file    "/var/run/named/named.pid";
};

zone "." {
    type hint;
    file "named.root";
};

zone "0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA" {
    type master;
    file "localhost.rev";
};

zone "home.net" {
    type master;
    file "primary/home.net";
};

zone "1.168.192.in-addr.arpa" {
    type master;
    file "local/1.168.192.rev";
};


=========== localhost.rev ==================

$TTL    3600

@   IN  SOA hserv.home.net. hostmaster.home.net.  (
            2004020701  ; Serial
            3600        ; Refresh
            900         ; Retry
            3600000     ; Expire
            3600 )      ; Minimum
    IN  NS  hserv.home.net.

1   IN  PTR localhost.home.net.

=========== primary/home.net ===============

$TTL    3600

@   IN      SOA     hserv.home.net. hostmaster.home.net. (
            2004020701      ; serial number (yymmddxxx)
            864000      ; refresh (24 hours)
            18000       ; retry (30 min)
            6048000     ; expire
            864000 )    ; minimum (24 hours)
    IN      NS      hserv.home.net.

xpclient            IN  A   192.168.1.10
xpclient.home.net.  IN  A   192.168.1.10
hserv               IN  A   192.168.1.1

site1               IN  A   192.168.1.1
site2               IN  A   192.168.1.1


localhost           IN  A   127.0.0.1

========= local/1.168.192.rev =============

$TTL    3600

@       IN  SOA hserv.home.net. hostmaster.home.net. (
                2004020701  ; serial
                86400       ; refresh
                1800        ; retry
                604800      ; expire
                84400 )     ; minimum
        IN  NS  hserv.home.net.

1       IN  PTR hserv.
10      IN  PTR xpclient.




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