Macintosh OSX 10 fails to get DNS servers from NW DHCP

[John Henry Maurice]

DHCP is provided by NetWare 5.1 sp6. Works with Windows, but a
Macintosh only gets IP, gateway and mask. They are not getting DNS
servers IPs. I have sniffed and confirmed that DNS server IPs are
being served up.

Seen this on OSX 10.2.8 and 10.3. Unknown if happening on 9.x.

Unable to find any information on this problem.

Thanks for any help.

[Brad Doster]

In article <tSzRb.1101$Wh...@prv-forum2.provo.novell.com>, John Henry

Maurice wrote:
> They are not getting DNS
> servers IPs. I have sniffed and confirmed that DNS server IPs are
> being served up.
>

In which case it would be an issue on the Mac side. If they have
manually configured DNS servers, this would usually override whatver
DHCP offers.

bd
NSC Volunteer SysOp
www.InsightNetSolutions.net

[John Henry Maurice]

Yes I agree, but the Library has a wireless network and the Library
staff do not have time to configure every Macintosh that walks in
through the door.

I was hoping that this was a known problem and someone could point me.

None the less, thanks for the information.

[Brad Doster]

In article <CbySb.4058$Wh....@prv-forum2.provo.novell.com>, John Henry

Maurice wrote:
> I was hoping that this was a known problem and someone could point me.
>

Well, it is a known behavior, but there's no known quick or automated
workaround to it that I'm aware of. Sorry,

[John Henry Maurice]

Thanks.

Looks like we may open a ticket with Apple on this. We must find a
solution.

In order to help define the problem, is it a known problem between (a)
all/most dhcp servers or (b) with NetWare dhcp server?

[Brad Doster]

I haven't checked, but I suspect it's part of the documented standard.
So yes, it goes far beyond just Novell's implentation.