I have set up my DHCP domain to be "edwards.local". It used to be "edwards.home" until I realised not long ago that it would be better practice to end the domain in .local rather than .home.
Problem is that the PCs aren't picking up the new domain. For example, my PC shows the following even though I'm 99% certain that the NIC is configured for DHCP:
[FONT="Courier New"]Windows IP Configuration
Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : TEA
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcast
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : edwards.home
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 2:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : edwards.home
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) PRO/1000 MT Desktop Adapter
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . :
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.***.*.133(Preferred)
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Wednesday, 7 January 2015 8:07:18 PM
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Wednesday, 7 January 2015 10:07:18 PM
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.***.*.254
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.***.*.254
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.***.*.254
NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled[/FONT]
I want this PC to have the IP address 192.***.*.133 so I've set it up in Network Definitions as type "Host" and given it an IP of 192.***.*.133 and a hostname of "tea". The DHCP server range is 192.***.*.1 - 192.***.*.49. I've done it like this because this is how I understand you allocate a random IP between 1 and 49 for some machines, and a "fixed" IP for machines like this one which need to have the same IP every day. Hope that's right!
Any idea why it doesn't say "edwards.local" as the Connection-specific DNS Suffix?
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