DHCP and DDNS

Kevin Darcy kcd at chrysler.com
Wed Apr 2 00:19:31 UTC 2008


X O R wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was trying to setup DHCP server to update connected clients into BIND9. Its working now. The problem is that I have few hosts with static ip address defined using fixed-address option in dhcpd.conf.
> So my question is how can I make BIND9 add 'fixed-address' hosts to dhcp.leases? Looks like this is the only way to make BIND9 remove addresses from the zones file on DHCPRELEASE.
>   
Even if you could coax your DHCP subsystem into generating these Dynamic 
Updates, why would you constantly delete and re-add the same 
name/address associations? Seems like you're making your DNS 
infrastructure perform work for little or no benefit.

- Kevin




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