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Linux DHCPD Serving Windows with Multiple domain-name options?

I basically have two domains I want to wind up on the search path, a.b.com and b.com. If I set
option domain-name "a.b.com b.com";

it works fine on linux/osx boxes, but windows fails. The reason why is that windows interprets that as a single connection suffix and is now trying to search in
"a.b.com b.com" which is obviously wrong. Does anyone know how to actually setup dhcpd so I can have all clients have a.b.com and b.com on the search path?

Pablo Allietti

you only use 1 domain name to your connection because domain-name assume is the ip to name.... for example your machine will be efaden.a.b.com and if you need search you can separate with , like in the example below

option domain-name "test.redhat.com";
option domain-name-servers ns1.redhat.com, ns2.redhat.com;

efaden

ASKER

Huh? I'm still confused. That doesn't really solve the problem. My problem is that efaden in that case won't resolve because it isn't in test.redhat.com. What I really want is to have it search a.b.com and b.com.

efaden

ASKER

As an example I have

foo.a.b.com as the computer getting dhcped....
bar.b.com as the server giving dhcp info....

I want foo.a.b.com to be able to lookup both foo and bar without the a.b.com b.com (i.e. they are in the search path).

-Eric

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