Dynamic Host DNS Registration
Jim Logan
jllogan at bigfoot.com
Thu Jul 7 13:55:49 UTC 2005
Hello everyone,
I am new to this list and to bind, so please forgive any naive
questions. I've tried searching for an answer, but I can't find one.
Maybe I'm searching on the wrong keywords?
I have successfully set up a DNS server behind my firewall/NAT router
that resolves my local names to local IP addresses. I am now trying to
add the ability to have Windows XP machines register their IP addresses
and local host names with the DNS server. I've been taking things one
step at a time while I learn about BIND, so I'm leaving my DNS server
completely insecure for the moment.
Here's the problem. The Windows XP event log is showing a failure, but
I can't see anything that indicates a failure or denial on the DNS side,
even though the zone files never change. I do see messages in response
to the registration in the query log, and I do see debugging trace
messages in named.run, but I'm seeing nothing obvious that says the
update is failing. The closest thing I see in the debugging messages is:
req: leaving (JimLogan.localhost, rcode 0)
make_rr(localhost, 13a000, bfffeb34, 476, 1) 45 zone 2 ttl 86400
(BTW, I haven't gotten around to changing the name of my "localhost"
zone to a different name, like "local". I hope that's not a factor. I
inherited that zone name from the Mac OS X configuration and never
changed it.)
I've tried setting the following within the localhost and reverse-lookup
zones without effect:
* allow-update { all; };
* allow-update { mynet; }; (where mynet is defined at the top of the
file as "acl mynet { 192.168.123.0/24; 127.0.0.1; };")
* not mentioning allow-update at all
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks,
-Jim
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