DDNS, ISC-DHCPD, and Bind... not working because of strange error messages

Glenn Satchell Glenn.Satchell at uniq.com.au
Sat Mar 29 13:19:43 UTC 2008


You'll need to post your dhcpd.conf. The list software strips
attachments, so include it in the body of the email.

A couple of general questions:

Is pool.ntp.org mentioned anywhere in your dhcpd.conf?

Can you resolve that name using, say, dig or nslookup?

Can you resolve other internet IP addresses (eg www.isc.org,
www.google.com, etc)?

Just trying to work out if it's a general dns resolution issue, or
something specific about dhcpd.

regards,
-glenn

>Subject: DDNS, ISC-DHCPD, and Bind... not working because of strange error 
messages
>From: Da Rock <rock_on_the_web at comcen.com.au>
>To: dhcp-users at isc.org
>Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 11:07:41 +1000
>
>I did actually manage to get this to work, and I can't exactly work out
>what changed to cause this error.
>
>I'm running FreeBSD 6.3, and sent this to the net and questions list
>there, but no one seems to know what is going on because I have received
>no response at all (posted around a week ago). So I thought I should go
>to the top - and ask the pros.
>
>I set this up at the end of last year, and it worked- kind of. The
>failure was my own by not using a proper FQDN, but it worked
>unofficially anyway. Records were updating etc: all happy.
>
>Anyway, I finally got the FQDN worked out (split horizon dns- external
>and internal views), but I find that the ddns is not working: and not
>because of the changes I made. I looked back and found the problem going
>on for month. My messages file has these entries, and no amount of
>googling has brought me any closer to finding out what they could mean,
>or why my clients aren't updating:
>
>Mar 27 16:18:54 {$HOSTNAME} dhcpd: pool.ntp.org: no A record associated
>with address
>
>I've edited the hostname to protect the innocent.
>
>What I can't figure out is why would dhcpd be looking at pool.ntp.org? I
>ran a dig on pool.ntp.org on the off chance it was busted- but of course
>it was not. And this record pops up everytime I renew my ip addresses.
>Weird...
>
>Little help anyone?
>
>Cheers
>
>
>



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