BIND and DDNS

Mark.Andrews at nominum.com Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
Tue Oct 24 22:20:20 UTC 2000


> 
> Hello all,
> 
> Half a year ago it has been discussed here how to configure Bind to run DDNS,
> which I did not undestanding completely yet.
> 
> Now we are starting to deploy W2K clients and servers as well, so I'm now
> digging for these infos again.
> 
> Even before getting to the point to introduce the subdomain _msdcs.emea.examp
> le.com
> we encountered some problems.
> On my first attempts to run Bind with 'allow-update' the result is, that afte
> r
> a while I get a corrupted zone file, or at least it looks corrupted to me.

	It's not corrupted (apart from what you introduced cutting and
	pasting, line break in the wrong place:-).  It's just not what you
	are expecting.

> 
> ;BIND DUMP V8
> $ORIGIN example.com.
> emea    86400   IN      NS      dns001.emea.example.com.       ;Cl=4
>         86400   IN      NS      dns002.emea.example.com.       ;Cl=4
>         86400   IN      SOA     dns001.emea.example.com.
> noc.example.com. (
>                 2000100668 10800 3600 604800 86400 )    ;Cl=4
> $ORIGIN emea.example.com.
> rtr001      86400   IN      CNAME   rtr001-ge0-0-0.emea.example.com.    ;Cl=4
> net007      86400   IN      A       10.41.34.225    ;Cl=4
> net008      86400   IN      A       10.41.34.233    ;Cl=4
> ...
> 
> In the named.conf file I entered following:
> 
> zone "emea.example.com" in {
>         type master;
>         file "/etc/namedb/db.emea.example.com";
> #       check-names ignore;

	You will been the checknames uncommented as MS created a server w/
	a illegal hostname.

>         allow-update {
>                 10.41/16;
>         };
> };
> 
> Since I don't want to fill up pages with my wired configs I do not add
> more here
> right now. Maybe this is really a newbie error I'm doing and there are
> some links
> to the solution already.
> But I also may supply more details of my config if needed.
> 
> Many thanks for any ideas
> 
> Thomas
> 
> 
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