Re: workstation DNS resolution problem with DHCP reservations

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Gio wrote:
Have an interesting issue with DNS resolutions. We have DHCP scopes
that do dynamic IP assignments and we have reservations for a bunch
of our workstations. In each scope we have tested, the XP
workstations that have DHCP Reservations seem to have issues
resolving DNS entries, example \\<servername>, where we will have a
XP workstation in the same scope getting an IP address dynamic which
isn't having that issue. This isn't a single workstation issues all
reserved systems have this issue, where all dynamic workstations is
not.

Anyone else seen this issue?

This would be an issue with the DNS suffix search list and/or the DNS server
list.
In your ipconfig /all check that the DNS suffix search list is correct and
that you are using the internal DNS server only.
The only possible difference between the two, provided you are using the
internal DNS only would be the Primary DNS suffix as the connection specific
suffix should be the same. Unless, the reservations are using different
suffixes for option 015.

Post an ipconfig /all from one using a reservation and one not using a
reservation.

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