Can you Force DDNS names to Lower Case?

[Glenn Satchell]

You can use the lcase() function in an appropriate scope. You probably
want this, or something similar, in the global scope.

	option ddns-hostname = lcase (option ddns-hostname);

regards,
-glenn
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>Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:42:27 -0600
>From: Martin McCormick <martin at dc.cis.okstate.edu>
>
>	Is it possible to cause dynamic DNS name registrations
>to always be in lower case? This is normally not a problem, but
>it makes trouble-shooting interesting at times when clients give
>their system a name like Bobs-PC which resolves, of course, to
>bobs-pc.
>
>	We set up some private networks with default domain
>names of wifi-atrc or wifi-su for certain buildings on our
>campus and I am seeing names like WiFi-ATRC.osu in zone
>transfers. I am mystified as to how the names are becoming
>mixed-case again. I might expect the host part of the name to be
>mixed-case, but one would expect the forward lookup of the
>default domain name to be whatever one set it to be. I have
>checked more than once to make sure that
>A.  We have the right names in our dhcpd.conf file and
>B.  Dhcpd was started recently so is not running on an old
>configuration.
>
>	Here is an example of one of the problem networks. We
>have several others that never seem to show mixed-case domain
>names.
>
>subnet 10.193.16.0 netmask 255.255.248.0 {
>#wifi-atrc
>option subnet-mask 255.255.248.0;
>option routers 10.193.23.254;
>ddns-updates on;
>option domain-name "wifi-atrc.osu";
>option broadcast-address 10.193.23.255;
>default-lease-time 14400;
>max-lease-time 14400;
> pool {
>deny dynamic bootp clients;
>failover peer "stw";
>range 10.193.16.64 10.193.23.223;
>}
>} #end network 10.193.16.0
>
>	This particular zone is loaded with WiFi-ATRC.osu names.
>
>Thanks for any ideas.
>
>Martin McCormick WB5AGZ  Stillwater, OK 
>Systems Engineer
>OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group
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