Accessing a DNS server fails on an alternate IP address

[Tom H]

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:56 AM, JB <jb.1234abcd at gmail.com> wrote:
> Steve Searle <steve <at> stevesearle.com> writes:
>> ...
>> I have got round it by getting the dhcp server to give out the ...126.1
>> address, but would prefer to get the ...126.154 address working.
>
> is this still valid ?
> If you are configuring an Ethernet device to have an alias, neither the device
> nor the alias can be configured to use DHCP. You must configure the IP addresses
> manually.

His device and alias do have static ip addresses.

His dhcp server is handing out the .1 dns server to dhclient requests.