Also be careful about .local, that name is being used by the systems for "bonjour", so if you also use it, strange things have been known to happen. May I suggest e.g. .lan, .home, .xyz, ...
On 22/12/10 21:06, magic-b...@damage.devloop.de wrote: > Hi, > keep calm ;-) I do not await a solution in 5 minutes ;-) > > Am Dienstag, 21. Dezember 2010, 23:38:13 schrieb Bill Larson: >> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 1:34 PM, <magic-b...@damage.devloop.de> wrote: >>> Hi List, >>> I have not yet found a solution for my problem. So I came here: >>> >>> I use DDNS. Every night my server (in my local network) is shutting down. >>> On >>> the next day I have the problem that DDNS is no longer working, because >>> on update I get the error that the DNS record allready exists. What is >>> the solution? >>> >>> I use BIND version 9.7.2_p3-r1. >> Well, there have been two questions asked but no more information given. >> That doesn't make it easy for anyone to help you. >> >> Some questions: >> >> 1. What is your DHCP server? H/W and S/W. Are you talking about a Linux >> box running "dhcpd" or a NetGear router running their DHCP server. This >> may make just a little difference. > I use the DHCPD from http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP. I run Gentoo Linux on > that server. This server is the router, dhcp server and dns server in my LAN. > It is standard x86 hardware. > >> 2. Why is your server shutting down? Is this shutdown expected? Also, >> which server are you referring to? Is this the DNS server or the DHCP >> server (or both)? You may have problems well outside the issue of DHCP and >> DNS. > It is shutting down every night, because I sleep at night ;-) DHCP and Bind > both are running on this server. It is just an idea of me that bind is > dumping > the journal to the zonefile on shutting down. In primary zone file I have: > > coffee A 192.168.11.35 > > But I never was writing it there by my own. This must be a result of DDNS. > >> 3. Who is trying to perform the DDNS updates? Is this the client machines >> or the DHCP server? > The DHCP tries to perform a DDNS update if the client sends its hostname > (what > it normaly should do). The client itselfs just performs a DHCP request. The > DDNS update is done via rndc-key. > >> 4. What do you see in your logs? This may answer your question without any >> more work on anybody's part. > 22-Dec-2010 20:35:44.451 update: info: client 192.168.11.1#58646: updating > zone 'sugarland.local/IN': update unsuccessful: coffee.sugarland.local/A: > 'rrset does not exist' prerequisite not satisfied (YXRRSET) > > I was reading that this means that the name/ip already exists. I was confused > by the message but I found a page which explained why it says "not exist". > > As I get the error message "coffee" had a record for 192.168.11.35. But > coffee > was getting 192.168.11.42. BTW: coffee is a notebook in dual boot between > windows and linux. May this is part of the problem?! > >> 5. What is your DNS server configuration? Who is allowed to perform DDNS >> updates? > include "/etc/bind/rndc.key"; > controls { > inet 127.0.0.1 port 953 allow { 127.0.0.1/32; ::1/128; } keys { "rndc- > key"; }; > }; > > zone "sugarland.local" IN { > type master; > file "pri/sugarland.zone"; > allow-update { key rndc-key; }; > }; > > zone "11.168.192.in-addr.arpa" IN { > type master; > file "pri/11.168.192.zone"; > allow-update { key rndc-key; }; > }; > > >> 6. When you say that "the DNS record already exists", have you confirmed >> this? Just query your DNS server for that record and see if it is really >> there. If it is not, this this message, which I am assuming is from your >> DHCP server or from your client machine, isn't true. Then again, if it >> really does exist, why would you think that it magically disappears? If >> you add a record to a zone, why would you think that it shouldn't still be >> there? > It is true. See above. > >> 7. You say you are running "BIND version 9.7.2_p3-r1". Sorry, I can >> understand the 9.7.2-P3 part, but what is the "r1" you are referring to? >> (I'll bet you are running Gentoo Linux, but this is just an assumption.) >> Is this built from the BIND sources from ISC or is this some package that >> you got from someone else? > You have win :-) This is a version extension from Gentoo. The package uses > the > sources from ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9. No patches are applied. > _______________________________________________ > bind-users mailing list > bind-users@lists.isc.org > https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users -- Best regards Sten Carlsen No improvements come from shouting: "MALE BOVINE MANURE!!!"
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