Dhcpd not updating with A record

[Simon Hobson]

Yannick CHAMPS wrote:

>you will find my config below.
>From /var/log/message, I can see update for the reverse zone but not for
>the acme.com zone :
>
>ec 27 14:07:25 vitiwebsrv2 dhcpd: DHCPRELEASE of 123.187.68.199 from
>00:1f:fb:14:1f:96 (yannick-acer) via eth0 (found)
>Dec 27 14:07:53 vitiwebsrv2 dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:1f:fb:14:1f:96
>via 123.187.68.206
>Dec 27 14:07:53 vitiwebsrv2 dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 123.187.68.199 to
>00:1f:fb:14:1f:96 (yannick-acer) via 123.187.68.206
>Dec 27 14:07:53 vitiwebsrv2 dhcpd: added reverse map from
>199.68.197.113.in-addr.arpa to yannick-acer.acme.com
>Dec 27 14:07:53 vitiwebsrv2 dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 123.187.68.199
>(192.168.1.145) from 00:1f:fb:14:1f:96 (yannick-acer) via 123.187.68.206
>Dec 27 14:07:53 vitiwebsrv2 dhcpd: DHCPACK on 123.187.68.199 to
>00:1f:fb:14:1f:96 (yannick-acer) via 123.187.68.206
>Dec 27 14:07:57 vitiwebsrv2 dhcpd: DHCPINFORM from 123.187.68.199 via
>123.187.68.206
>Dec 27 14:07:57 vitiwebsrv2 dhcpd: DHCPACK to 123.187.68.199
>(00:1f:fb:14:1f:96) via eth0
>
>Is this  normal behaviour ?

Most likely the client is setting an option to say it will do the 
forward update - default I think in Windows. You can set 
"deny-client-updates" (IIRC) in the server config to turn this off.

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