Problems with Mac OS X Clients

[Sten Carlsen]

Hi

You don't have .local as your local "safe" tld?

Mac-OSX does have a special meaning with this tld. Rendevous. I did this
when I first bought a MAC, it took me a day to figure out what the
problem was. I had similar problems.

The solution is DON'T use .local as tld.

If that is not what you do, you have other problems I have no clue about.



Adrian Merwood wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am running 2 different (alternating) DHCP 3.0.3 servers - 1 on 
> Mandrake 2006 and 1 on CentOS.  They both exhibit the same behaviour.  
> They will happily serve up DHCP addresses to anything on my network 
> except for the OS X systems.  I see the following sequence in the log 
> when I try to request DHCP address from my OS X laptop:
>
> May  6 20:15:32 gateway dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.1.64 from 
> 00:16:cb:07:49:93 via eth1: lease 192.168.1.64 unavailable.
> May  6 20:15:32 gateway dhcpd: DHCPNAK on 192.168.1.64 to 
> 00:16:cb:07:49:93 via eth1
> May  6 20:15:32 gateway dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:16:cb:07:49:93 via eth1
> May  6 20:15:32 gateway dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.1.195 to 
> 00:16:cb:07:49:93 via eth1
> May  6 20:15:33 gateway dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:16:cb:07:49:93 via eth1
> May  6 20:15:33 gateway dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.1.195 to 
> 00:16:cb:07:49:93 via eth1
> ....and so on
>
> The 192.168.1.64 address is from another network served by a built in 
> DHCP server on an ADSL router which happily serves up addresses to OS X.
>
> I am at a loss to explain why simplistic built in DHCP servers such as 
> the one in my Router work but the bog standard ISC DHCP server on either 
> of my linux systems will not work with the OS X dhcp client?
>
> Any and all suggestions would be most welcome.
>
> Adrian
>
>