Dynamic updates stopped working

smallpond smallpond at juno.com
Fri Aug 18 18:43:54 UTC 2006


Quentin Hartman wrote:
> I am running BIND 9.2.5 as an internal name server which, up until
> recently, was happily receiving dynamic DNS updates from several ISC
> DHCP servers on my network. The changes that seemed to change the
> behavior was the need to add some names by hand and add a couple
> additional forward zones that were missed in the initial setup. I
> followed what seemed to be regarded as the "way to do it" according
> the resources I found online wherein:
>
> 1- Stop BIND
> 2- Make changes (including updating serial numbers)
> 3- Delete journal files
> 4- Start BIND
>
> Since then, my DHCP servers are all logging errors like the following
> when trying to update a DDNS record that does not already exist in the
> zone files:
>
> Aug 17 16:12:45 oak dhcpd: Unable to add forward map from
> host.my.domain.tld to 1.2.3.4: not a zone
>
> I'm not expecting a solution at this point, but some direction for
> troubleshooting this would be much appreciated. I've payed to google
> in a variety of ways, but nothing I have found yet has solved the
> problem.
>
> Please let me know if this is a more appropriate question for the
> DHCP-users list and I will cross-post over there.
> --
> -Regards-
>
> -Quentin Hartman-

Here are 3 things to ask.

1) What command did you issue to stop bind?

2) What error is in the log from when you restarted bind?

3) What is the response to these commands?
dig -t any host.my.domain.tld
dig -t any 4.3.2.1.in-addr.arpa



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