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Re: WindowsXP home and pro won't renew dns
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeremy Mlazovsky)
Wed Mar 6 13:06:21 2002
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Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 12:50:41 -0500
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From: Jeremy Mlazovsky <Jeremy.Mlazovsky@NOTES.UDAYTON.EDU>
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I have not been paying a lot of attention to this particular thread, so if
my answer has been covered already, please disregard :)
I've seen mention on the ResNet list in the past few months about problems
with students registering the miniport virtual ethernet adapter and
creating chaos because the MAC address for that virtual adapter is not
unique amongst WinXP systems.
Is there a possibility that these WinXP systems exhibiting the weird
behavior have the miniport adapter installed?
Jeremy Mlazovsky
PC/Network Specialist
UD IT
University of Dayton
Office: 937-229-4019
Ted Roberge
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Good Morning Dax,
Simply put...tried that (many times)...still no workie! We're putting
together a list of the computer types, nic or pcmcia cards, etc to try to
find a commonality to this bug.
See ya later.
Ted
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Daxter Gulje
Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 3:49 PM
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Subject: Re: WindowsXP home and pro won't renew dns
Howdy Ted-
Yes, this problem has cropped up here at UCSB (I think I might
have mentioned it once or twice before, in fact), and....surprise!
The only work-around I was able to discover was manually entering
IP/DNS info, then switching back to DHCP.
Let's hear it for Innovation(TM)!
/Sarcasm
/Dax
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From: Ted Roberge [mailto:troberge@UCI.EDU]
Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 3:02 PM
To: RESNET-L@listserv.nd.edu
Subject: WindowsXP home and pro won't renew dns
Hello,
Here at UCI we have been experiencing a problem with WinXP home
and pro. We have a linux box for a DHCP and Registration server.
When a new user plugs in and their MAC address is not registered
they will receive a bogus DNS address that resolves to the Apache
Registration page. Once they register, wait for 5 or 10 minutes,
they can restart or do a simple ipconfig /release then ipconfig
/renew.
Now, on all other OS's, including a bunch of XP computers, this
works just fine. The ipconfig /renew brings back the ip address
again, gateway and the correct dns. However, we found that not
all XP machines will release the dns address and keep getting
directed to our registration page.
We tried uninstalling the card, removing the tcp/ip stack,
changing the dns address in the registry, starting and
restarting, releasing and renewing....all to no avail. Nothing
we do will get the new dns number renewed. As an interim
solution we simply enter the correct dns manually after the
resident registers. This is a weak work-around.
Digging through the MS Knowledge Base provides no answers either.
So.....finally...has anyone else come across this problem, and if
so....what's the solution??? Help.
Ted Roberge
Manager, Residential Network Services
University of California, Irvine
(949) 824-3868
http://resnet.uci.edu
"If the brain is a computer, then it is the only one that runs on
glucose,
generates ten watts of electricity, and is manufactured by
unskilled labor."
David Lewis
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