DHCP not giving out DNS address
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It is probably hard-set in windows. You can get a dynamic address with hard-set DNS servers.
Packet capture the DHCP exchange and see what the DHCP server is actually sending. You will likely find it is exactly what is set in the DHCP server.
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Did the dump with wireshark. Followed this guide https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wireshark/DHCP and do not see anything in there with the DNS server IP address that I am specifying in the DHCP server.
edit: If this is hard set in windows would my linux/android clients get the dns entry? How would I go about fixing it in windows if it is hard set?
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If windows has it hard set remove it from the interface config in windows.
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Didn't see anything? How about you post it…
So show us that you wanting to hand out 192.168.1.10, for example I hand out 192.168.3.10 -- here I did a release and then renew, you can see in the offer 192.168.3.10 was offered..
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Thanks for pointing out where to look. I changed it to 192.168.1.52 just to try and still receiving 192.168.1.1. See attachments. I think I just realized what you meant by windows hard set. No it is not hard set.
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You have another DHCP server on your network. Look at the source MAC address of the DHCP server responses.
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Or you have a reservation setup for that client.. Your client is 192.168.1.7 but your pool is 150-254 so clearly its not coming from that pool..
Notice my pool, my client .100 is outside that pool I have a reservation/static for it set..
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Don't have a second DHCP server but I do have a static reservation for the client. Almost all of my clients have a static reservation. So this brings up two questions.
1. if I use a DHCP reservation on pfsense how do I send DNS to the client that gets the reservation without hard setting it on the client?
2 I have other non windows clients (Sonos and android) that are in the DHCP pool that do not report back to my dns server 192.168.1.52 (remember I changed it). If DHCP is sending out DNS why wouldn't these clients use the DNS that it is supposed to from DHCP?
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" If DHCP is sending out DNS why wouldn't these clients use the DNS that it is supposed to from DHCP?"
because they haven't updated their lease yet??
So set the dns you want your client to use in the reservation.. If you don't then yeah its going to get the IP address your dhcp server is running on as default.
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So after a reboot of pfsense, everything started working as it should. I guess the reboot released all the static leases?
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huh? Or you client updated its lease.. And the reboot had zero to do with it..
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I guess I should have been more clear. After a reboot of pfsense, all clients started talking to my DNS server as it is configured in pfsense. Meaning all clients windows linux android and whatever sonos runs on(probably linux) started reporting into the DNS server at 192.168.1.52. So take it how you want….
