using autodns-dhcp_cron to reload dhcpd.conf

Simon Hobson dhcp1 at thehobsons.co.uk
Wed Dec 23 19:42:59 UTC 2009


Jose Guevarra wrote:

>Also,  if I delete a host reservation from dhcpd.conf is there an 
>automatic way of deleted the A/PTR records from the zone files? 
>Will they be deleted from the zones after they expire?  Or do they 
>have to be manually deleted?

It's manual.
'leases' associated with host declarations don't actually exist 
anywhere and don't go through the normal lifecycle that dynamic 
leases do. Therefore the server has no knowledge of their history, 
and you must manually delete any associated DNS records.

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