AD DNS
stephan schutter
rhl at farorbit.com
Wed Aug 27 19:19:32 UTC 2003
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 at 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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