Problems with Mac OS X Clients

[Adrian Merwood]

Sten Carlsen wrote:
> 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
>>
>>   
>>     
>
>   
Sten,

I am not sure what you mean by "safe tld" I have a real domain that I 
use for most machines, mind you I am not sure how I set the domain on 
the mac to what I want? 

Please can you elaborate......it has crossed my mind that Rendezvous 
might be casuing this.

Adrian