DHCP server under RH8

Can anybody help me with the following problem.
I have several servers setup as Samba file server and DHCP server. All running
RedHat 8.0 (fully updated)
One of the servers is passing out hostnames in the form hostname.domainname.
Because of this the hosts are trying to do a DNS loockup on the internet and
can't find internal hostnames.
What I would like to know is, is there anybody who can tell me wich options to
check in the DHCP configuration files.
Everything worked fine till today, needless to say that nothing was changed in
configuration files.
The Linux box is used as a fileserver in a Windows network.
Please let me know if you need any additional information

Regards,
Cor van den Berghe.

Cor van den Berghe wrote:
> Can anybody help me with the following problem.
> I have several servers setup as Samba file server and DHCP server. All
> running RedHat 8.0 (fully updated)
> One of the servers is passing out hostnames in the form
> hostname.domainname. Because of this the hosts are trying to do a DNS
> loockup on the internet and can't find internal hostnames.
> What I would like to know is, is there anybody who can tell me wich
> options to check in the DHCP configuration files.
> Everything worked fine till today, needless to say that nothing was
> changed in configuration files.
> The Linux box is used as a fileserver in a Windows network.
> Please let me know if you need any additional information
>
> Regards,
> Cor van den Berghe.
Why not set up your own caching DNS server with an additional zone for
your internal host names. Then you can just point all of your internal
hosts to your internal dns server which will let you look up everything.

HTH
Neil

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Neil Horman
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On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 15:17:29 +0100, Cor van den Berghe <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Can anybody help me with the following problem.
> I have several servers setup as Samba file server and DHCP server. All running
> RedHat 8.0 (fully updated)
> One of the servers is passing out hostnames in the form hostname.domainname.
> Because of this the hosts are trying to do a DNS loockup on the internet and
> can't find internal hostnames.
> What I would like to know is, is there anybody who can tell me wich options to
> check in the DHCP configuration files.
> Everything worked fine till today, needless to say that nothing was changed in
> configuration files.
> The Linux box is used as a fileserver in a Windows network.
> Please let me know if you need any additional information

If you use BIND9, you can setup an internal view that's separate from your
external view. Check out ISC's BIND (http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/) for
more inforation.

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-- Skylar Thompson ((E-Mail Removed))
-- http://cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/

Cor van den Berghe schreef:

> Can anybody help me with the following problem.
> I have several servers setup as Samba file server and DHCP server. All
> running RedHat 8.0 (fully updated)
> One of the servers is passing out hostnames in the form
> hostname.domainname. Because of this the hosts are trying to do a DNS
> loockup on the internet and can't find internal hostnames.
> What I would like to know is, is there anybody who can tell me wich
> options to check in the DHCP configuration files.
> Everything worked fine till today, needless to say that nothing was
> changed in configuration files.
> The Linux box is used as a fileserver in a Windows network.
> Please let me know if you need any additional information
>
> Regards,
> Cor van den Berghe.

Thanks for your quick reply.
So you guys think I'm looking in the wrong place and that I should be looking
for the problem in the DNS setup?
OK, thats where I'm gonna look now than.
Again, thanks for your reply.

Regards,
Cor van den Berghe