Conference gyro::internet_toolss

4483.0. "Does anybody know well DNS and DHCP ? " by BERGIL::16.44.0.158::woog () Tue Feb 18 1997 09:57

I try to use a short name for my proxy, in Easynet: www-proxy, instead of 
the fully qualified name www-proxy.geo.dec.com. My PC, Windows 95, is 
configured to use dynamic IP via DHCP. It works, but does somebody know the 
mechanism behind the scene ? I have got two potentially different 
explanations:

1) www-proxy is defined in my DNS site as the GEO proxy server (I know that 
such a definition exists, but is it used in that case ?)
2) www-proxy is automatically extended with my default domain name, 
geo.dec.com which is transmitted to my PC via DHCP. This his information  
is transmitted via the DNS lookup request, when my browser makes a request 
 
Against solution 2, is that I do not see the default domain in the control 
setting panel (panel network, TCP-IP properties, DNS config). But I was 
told it is normal. 

Against solution 1 is that when I define a suffix order search (dec.com), 
then it does not find the right name, saying something like: cannot find 
www-proxy:8080

Does anybody know sufficiently well DNS and DHCP to help me ? 

Thanks 

Alain Woog

woog@mail.dec.com 

When you configures via DHCP, one of the things it learns is it's default
domain.  When your PC looks an unqualified name, it will append the default
domain to it.  Thus www-proxy becomes www-proxy.geo.dec.com.

    
    re: how to enable really short names....
    
    	You can use your Network Neighborhood name in WINS, rather than the
    verbose DHCP DNS name in IE 3.0.
    
    My Computer-->Control Panel-->Internet-->Connection
    
    At the bottom enble "do not use proxy server for local addresses"
    
    My NT system is SBU-Vilcans1 on network neighborhood and can be easily
    reached without knowing any DNS names. My home system is RASed, and its
    Webserver is easily reached via WINs compared to the dynamic nature of
    trying to maintain DHCP connections names.
    
    Note: WINS is not ideal, but its really easy compared to getting a
    static ip address to just test your webserver.
    
    							=Paul=