I'm not sure whether any of you guys have played with the new
bind/named/dhcp combination yet, but I upgraded about a month ago because I
read somewhere that the new versions would allow DHCP to automatically add
dynamic address clients to the named cache. I've looked at how to re-set up
named (initially just set up as caching nameserver) to allow this from the
information I could find, and I also tried to add a second slave zone as was
supposedly required. I never got the slave zone part to work (can't remember
the specific error message now - sorry), so it may all not be working
because of this. I've since removed it because this is a working server.
I've added the line:
ddns-update-style ad-hoc;
to my dhcpd.conf
And DHCP seems happy with that part (no errors)
Now, in my named.conf in my zone section I do have the:
allow-update { 127.0.0.1; }
No errors but it doesn't seem to work. The error I get is:
Apr 5 17:51:14 server dhcpd: if IN A Tim.localdomain rrset doesn't exist
add 21600 IN A Tim.localdomain 192.168.0.246: timed out.
Apr 5 17:51:14 server dhcpd: Wrote 9 leases to leases file.
Apr 5 17:51:14 server dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.0.246 from
00:00:e8:df:98:59 (Tim) via eth0
Apr 5 17:51:14 server dhcpd: DHCPACK on 192.168.0.246 to 00:00:e8:df:98:59
(Tim) via eth0
Apr 5 17:57:13 server dhcpd: if IN A Tim.localdomain rrset doesn't exist
add 21600 IN A Tim.localdomain 192.168.0.246: timed out.
It seems it tries to add it but then times out. I really think my named.conf
is wrong somehow. Would anyone who has done this care to help out?
P.S. The most ANNOYING part of the whole deal is SOMEHOW my XP machines on
the network DO know Tim's IP address as soon as the client comes on-line. I
can ping from these PCs just fine. The Linux server itself AND the Win9X
clients (obviously - they get their IP addresses from the server) don't
work. Go figure.
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Edward Dekkers (Director)
Triple D Computer Services Pty. Ltd.
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