DHCP 4.2.0 DDNS and OMAPI Bugs (RHEL5.5 x86_64)
Joshua West
jwest at brandeis.edu
Wed Sep 1 13:37:01 UTC 2010
Has anybody else run into this issue?
Anybody running 4.2.0 on RHEL5 with no problems?
On 08/30/10 17:02, Joshua West wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
> I just tried updating our systems from 4.1.1-P1 to 4.2.0 and had to
> revert back. I've encountered a couple issues with 4.2.0.
>
> This is all on RHEL 5.5 64-bit.
>
> The first issue is DDNS updates no longer work. The error I receive
> in /var/log/messages is :
>
> dhcpd: Unable to add forward map from myhost.mydomain.com to 1.2.3.4:
> not found
>
>
> With the hostname and IP addresses obviously changed for this email...
>
> Perhaps this has something to do with the BIND libraries compiled in
> for async DDNS updates starting in 4.2.0? I cannot build DHCP 4.2.0
> with the RHEL 5.5 supplied bind-libbind-devel / bind-devel packages
> (aka --with-libbind=/usr) as they are for an older version of BIND
> than 9.7.x.
>
> Packet captures on the dhcp servers and on the destination DNS server
> show that no packets were sent/received regarding the ddns update.
>
> The second and third bugs have to do with OMAPI. When I try to
> connect to the omapi port (900 on my system), I receive an error from
> omshell:
>
> dhcpctl_connect: operation in progress
>
>
> In addition, dhcpd then spikes to 100% CPU usage.
>
> Has anybody else run into these issues?
>
> Thanks.
>
--
Joshua West
Senior Systems Engineer
Brandeis University
http://www.brandeis.edu
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