Re: [Sheflug] DHCP Problems

["Rob Keeling" <nospam [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Chris, that sorted things.

I had been reading man pages web etc and still missed that one!

Rob Keeling

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris J" <nospam [at] nightwolf.org.uk>
To: <nospam [at] list.sheflug.org.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 10:26 AM
Subject: Re: [Sheflug] DHCP Problems


>
> And Lo! The Great Prophet " Rob Keeling" uttered these words of wisdom...
> >
> > I am trying to configure DHCP & DNS on a SuSe 8.1 box to do DDNS.
> >
> > Some machines register on the DNS server (so I am assuming the DNS
config
> > is fine) others don`t.
> >
> > My dhcpd.conf file is attached. It seems at the moment that any machine
> > that has a fixed ip address in dhcp isn`t updated in DNS, i.e.
>
> Google reveals ...
>
>
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=la&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=01HW.B7E4D6
100014EE8A1C3994C0%40news.demon.co.uk
>
> Where the important bit is...
>
> .
> .
> .
> 1) Tell dhcpd to do DNS updates for statically defined addresses, man
> dhcpd.conf will give the details, the switch is called something like
> update-static-leases on ; Be aware however that this will cause the dhcp
> server to perform a DNS update EVERY time is issues or renews a lease for
a
> static address which is unneccessary load on the servers (it also gives
> messages in syslog each time BTW).
> .
> .
> .
>
> Seems this is summat a few people have queried. Very few follow-ups
though,
> this probably being about the best (doing a quick 5 min search).
>
> HTH,
>
> Chris...
>
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