Re: AD DNS

[stephan schutter <rhl farorbit com>]

Thank you for all your responses.

That solves the resolution question. This  implies that I did not pick 
up the complete scope from DHCP. This is Microsoft DHCP, using named 
spaces quite intensively, is it diferent from UNIX? I mean; if I am only 
picking up part of the DHCP info, then my DHCP client is not acting like 
the Microsoft one... what could be different?

Daniel J Walsh wrote:

> Don't worry about the paronoia.  Lets just call the domain censored.com
>
> Not sure how Microsoft works.  But your query was looking for
> burner.censored.com
> which does not exist.
>
> Microsoft returned
> burner.stores.censored.com
>
> In order to have this happen on Unix.  You would need the search in 
> resolv.conf to look like the following
>
> search censored.com stores.censored.com
>
> Dan
>
>
> stephan schutter wrote:
>
> > sorry for the paranoia... It would just be too easy for a social 
> > engineer with the details and the company name... if it helps you to 
> > know where I am... we can do this in private email...
> >
> > as you can see they have the same name servers and the subnet is the 
> > same, and the search domain is the same... how can they get a diferent 
> > answer from the name server?
> >
> > ______ RESOLVE.CONF _________________
> >
> > ; generated by /sbin/dhclient-script
> > search hq.<censored>.com
> > nameserver 10.104.241.115
> > nameserver 10.114.215.20
> >
> > the hq* comes from DHCP...
> >
> > [root thumper root]# ifconfig
> > eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:06:5B:2C:A6:61          inet 
> > addr:10.89.17.22  Bcast:10.89.17.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
> >          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> >          RX packets:342584 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:1 frame:0
> >          TX packets:127144 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> >          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
> >          RX bytes:26721199 (25.4 Mb)  TX bytes:57670951 (54.9 Mb)
> >          Interrupt:11 Base address:0xec80
> >
> >
> >
> > _______ WinXP config _________________
> > C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>ipconfig /all
> >
> > Windows IP Configuration
> >
> >        Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : clone-xor7cco2u
> >        Primary Dns Suffix  . . . . . . . :
> >        Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
> >        IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
> >        WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
> >
> > Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 2:
> >
> >        Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . : hq.<censored>.com
> >        Description . . . . . . . . . . . : 3Com 3C920 Integrated Fast 
> > Ethernet Controller (3C905C-TX Compatible)
> >        Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-06-5B-E0-50-8C
> >        Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
> >        Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
> >        IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.89.17.91
> >        Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
> >        Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 10.89.17.1
> >                                            10.89.17.2
> >        DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.114.83.24
> >        DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.104.241.115
> >                                            10.114.215.20
> >        Primary WINS Server . . . . . . . : 10.104.240.251
> >        Secondary WINS Server . . . . . . : 10.114.48.250
> >        Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Wednesday, August 27, 2003 
> > 9:04:44 AM
> >        Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Monday, September 01, 2003 
> > 9:04:44 AM
> >
> >
> > Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> >
> > > stephan schutter wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > > I am in a large network that uses Active Directory DDNS and redhat 
> > > > can simply not resolve any other computernames in the network... 
> > > > well atleast thare is a large segment of them that can not be 
> > > > resolved. no workstations for example.  I use the default setup and 
> > > > allow DHCP to configure everything. In windows it works fine, but in 
> > > > this version  (I do not know about earlier versions) it does not 
> > > > work at all. I do nslookup to the same server using the same DNS 
> > > > server and get diferent results. eg. the DNS server (windows 2000)  
> > > > does not reply with the same anwer if you are redhat.
> > > > WIN:
> > > > Z:\tmp\scan>nslookup burner
> > > > Server:  dhcnic02.<removed>.com
> > > > Address:  10.104.241.115
> > > >
> > > > Name:    burner.stores.<removed>.com
> > > > Address:  10.89.17.84
> > > >
> > > > REDHAT:
> > > > Note:  nslookup is deprecated and may be removed from future releases.
> > > > Consider using the `dig' or `host' programs instead.  Run nslookup with
> > > > the `-sil[ent]' option to prevent this message from appearing.
> > > > Server:         10.104.241.115
> > > > Address:        10.104.241.115#53
> > > >
> > > > ** server can't find burner: SERVFAIL
> > > > What is going on????!!! RedHat cant talk DNS??
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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> > >
> > >
> > > Are you specifying the fully qualified domain.  Look at 
> > > /etc/resolv.conf.  What does it have for its domain?  What does it 
> > > have after search? Dan
> > >
> > >
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