DNS & Windows 2000

[lksixt]

I’m running DNS on my W2K machines. When I installed my XServe I gave it a host name sa-xserve, and pointed to my DNS Server.

Per server status I do not have a dns name, nor does an entry show up on my DNS server.

I can get to websites like http://www.apple.com so I must be getting some translation

I can ping to the ip-address of internal servers, but not via their dns names.

I’ve searched every forum and newsgroup I can find and I seem to be the only one that has this problem. Is it so simple I’ve missed something?

thanks,

~laura

[lksixt]

arghh… so very simple. W2K DNS will update windows machines automatically, but not OS X. So just added a new host record for my OS X server and all is well in the world.

~laura

[legacyb4]

Do also include a reverse lookup (PTR) record as well on your DNS records for best results.

Cheers.

[quote:e373f3be9b=”lksixt”]arghh… so very simple. W2K DNS will update windows machines automatically, but not OS X. So just added a new host record for my OS X server and all is well in the world.

~laura[/quote:e373f3be9b]

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