<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 6:12 PM Simon Hobson <<a href="mailto:dhcp1@thehobsons.co.uk">dhcp1@thehobsons.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">It's not actually required IF the DNS is set up properly. dhcpd will look for the SOA record for the zone, and send updates to the primary server specified.<br>
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You do need zone declarations if either the DNS isn't setup to allow dhcpd to find the primary server or if you use signed updates.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I didn't know this. I have explicit declarations in my pool statement:</div><div><br></div><div><font face="monospace"> zone 17.168.192.in-addr.arpa {<br> primary dns1.ldev;<br> key gw-ddns;<br> }<br> zone dhcp.ldev {<br> primary dns1.ldev;<br> key gw-ddns;<br> }</font><br></div><div><font face="monospace"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">and this seems to work.</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Is this due to the use of TSIG keys (are these signed updates)?</font></div></div></div>