DHCP and 2 subnets
Simon Hobson
dhcp1 at thehobsons.co.uk
Sat Apr 12 17:27:58 UTC 2008
Chris Arnold wrote:
>Well, it is with much thanks to you all on the dhcp list that i
>energetically tell you that this works now :))
Another satisfied customer.
>The only thing i have noticed is on clients on the 123 network, it
>takes a long time to get an IP (like minutes); longer than clients
>on the 124 network. Is there any reason you can think of when
>looking at the config:
No, what do the logs show ? That is always the first place to look !
There are many reasons why a client might not get a lease straight
away, but usually the logs will show why. By now you should be
familiar with the Discover-Offer-Request-Ack cycle of messages, so
you are looking for log entries that are different to this.
>On the dns updating side----i have searched the archives of the list
>and read the man pages and see where there is only 2 ways and 1 does
>not work (ad-hock). So you can see from the config file i have
>interim; but i still am unable to ping a dhcp client. Any ideas on
>this?
As Glenn says, see the config examples. You can allow updates by IP
address, but normally you would use a key to sign updates, and for
this you need zone declarations in your DHCP config (which I see you
don't have). The default for BIND is to not allow any updates, so any
attempts will fail. Again, the logs are your friend - both the DHCP
server and the BIND server.
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