getting multiple domain-name dns request to work with microsoft windows xp dhcp clients

[Glenn Satchell]

Looks like you need dhcpd version 3.1.2 or later for this to work properly.

If domain-search is not listed in 'man dhcp-options', then your version 
does not support it.

regards,
-glenn

On 05/28/10 11:42, Glenn Satchell wrote:
> Hi Jelle
>
> That's an invalid config that just happens to work for the Linux client
> and was a common workaround before there was a revision to the RFC to
> add a feature for setting the search list. The correct definition for
> option domain-name is a single domain. In this case the MS client is
> behaving correctly.
>
> I am assuming you wish to set the search path for dns queries. The way
> to do this is to use
>
> option domain-search domain-list;
>
> The domain-search option specifies a 'search list' of
> Domain Names to be used by the client to locate not-
> fully-qualified domain names. The difference between this
> option and historic use of the domain-name option for the
> same ends is that this option is encoded in RFC1035
> compressed labels on the wire. For example:
>
> option domain-search "example.com", "sales.example.com",
> "eng.example.com";
>
> regards,
> -glenn
>
> On 05/28/10 05:31, Jelle de Jong wrote:
>> Hello everybody,
>>
>> I have configured a nice dynamic dns with dhcpd system with bind9 and
>> dhcp3-server on debian gnu/linux, and it seemed to be working very well,
>> until I attached a Microsoft windows xp dhcp clients and the dns queries
>> where not the same as those of the linux clients.
>>
>> option domain-name "dynamic.powercraft.nl static.powercraft.nl";
>>
>> I know Microsoft DNS can work, because if I manually set the DNS servers
>> it works, but manually setting every client is not workable solution for
>> me.
>>
>> When debugging the bind9 dns request I can what goes wrong in the
>> request:
>>
>> 27-May-2010 00:25:45.159 queries: info: client 192.168.30.100#1314:
>> query: jelle-laptop.dynamic.powercraft.nl\032static.powercraft.nl IN A +
>>
>> It seems the domain-name set by windows is received as one server with
>> spaces in it names instead of receiving two domain-names the client
>> should be using.
>>
>> I tried some stuff I found at:
>> http://www.daemon-systems.org/man/dhcp-options.5.html
>>
>> I can't get it to work. Can somebody help me out?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> With kind regards,
>>
>> Jelle de Jong
>>