bind9 and dhcp

Jim Reid jim at rfc1035.com
Thu May 17 12:13:20 UTC 2001


>>>>> "Andre" == Andre Klocke <andre.klocke at stb-datenservice.de> writes:

    Andre> Hello List!  I´ve a question about updateing the DNS DB
    Andre> with new leases of the dhcp server. How do i configure it
    Andre> that the dns gets information about new clients at the dhcp
    Andre> server?

You can use Dynamic DNS with most DHCP servers. So when the DHCP
server hands out a lease, it sends a dynamic update request to the name
server. If you do this, be sure to use TSIG to authenticate the update
requests. Another approach is to have static entries in the DNS for
the addresses managed by the DHCP server: dhcp1, dhcp2, etc and not
bother with updating DNS on the fly at all


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