In article <4AC4D3BF.7A75.004E.1@corobrik.co.za>, John Gill wrote:
> Send me the book and I would be happy to help out there. What I
> would find really helpful
> is to have screen-shots of what a simple/average DNS/DHCP config
> would look like.
> Perhaps with 2 subnets and 2 DNS/DHCP servers with failover etc.
> That way your average Joe
> can get started and have the correct basics in place before getting
> too complicated.
>
Emailed you a reply.
> Had an interesting development, in that I lost all my DNS/DHCP
> settings (netware 6.5.8) and when
> I re-imported all the zones and DHCP stuff, I could not see any of
> the DHCP options. The result is that the
> users lost their default gateway cos SLP was not pushing the gateway
> address to the users.
> This caused a BIG problem. Anyway deleted all the DNS/DHCP objects
> and
> then had to wait until e-directory removed all the items. (used
> DSTRACE and DSBROWSE) 3 hours
> later they were gone and then made sure DS was healthy (DSREPAIR).
> Ran DNIPINST -f and re-created the server objects. Did the zone and
> DHCP
> imports and all is good.
>
> Maybe this was the cause of my other
> OES - DNS/DHCP problem. Will now retry the installation.
> One day I will be an expert.
This suggests to me that there are eDir issues in your environment that
need to be looked at. Should never take 3 hours to delete an object
like that.
>
Craig Johnson
Novell Support Connection SysOp
Re: DHCP not updating DNS
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