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Is it possible to configure isc-dhcp in a way that it can send different DNS server addresses to different clients in the network?

Let say I have some Macs, PCs with Linux and Windows in the network. My primary DNS server is bind9 under Linux, but I have also a Windows server how also act as a DNS. Now I want that isc-dhcp send to the Windows clients the DNS connection to the Windows server and all other computer in the network get the DNS settings from the dhcp/bind9.

Is that possible?

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  • You can provide different settings based on the client. This is done by filtering on vendor-class-identifier. See this mailing list discussion: lists.isc.org/pipermail/dhcp-users/2010-May/011783.html
    – muru
    Mar 22, 2015 at 12:41
  • @muru: Could you please convert that to an answer so that schmucks like me who go around hunting for unanswered questions don't have to look at this one any more. ;-) (And I'll upvote if you drop me a note and it's a good one too!)
    – Fabby
    Mar 25, 2015 at 20:32
  • @Fabby it's basically a link-only answer, and I don't know enough to write a decent answer. You can post one.
    – muru
    Mar 25, 2015 at 20:33

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According to the answer I get from muru, I found this workaround out:

For find out the vender-class-identifier from the clients, you need to put this on top from the dhcpd.conf:

set vendor-string = option vendor-class-identifier;

After restarting the dhcp service and a new connection to the dhcp server from a client you can use cat /var/lib/dhcp/dhcpd.leases to see which is your class. For example Windows XP has: "MSFT 5.0"

Now you can clarify the DNS Servers for the Clients like this, inside a subnet block:

# DNS for Windows XP
if substring (option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 9) = "MSFT 5.0"
{
    option domain-name-servers 192.168.0.1;
}
# DNS for all others
else
{
    option domain-name-servers 192.168.2.254, 8.8.8.8;
}

I am not sure that we need the 0, 9 variable, maybe not.

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