[geeks] DHCP silliness

Joshua D Boyd geeks at sunhelp.org
Sun Nov 25 00:43:18 CST 2001


On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 01:36:24AM -0500, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> on one NetBSD machine, NAT/router on another), so I can't turn this stupid 
> windoes box off all at once.  But when I turn off the DHCPenabled flag in the
> registry (the flag that says whether ICS will act as DHCP or not), it stops
> doing the NAT work, even though the new DHCP server definately is setting all 
> the settings correctly (IE, DNS and gateway set to win98 box.

Oh.  I just figured out why it fails with DHCPenabled off.  Apparently it stops
working as a DNS server when you disable DHCP.  Hmm.  I wonder if I can use
external DNS servers through the NAT...


-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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