Multiple DHCP Servers with DDNS Best Practice/Workaround?

[Colin Simpson]

On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 18:02 +0100, Simon Hobson wrote:
> Thinking some more, it may be worth checking the exact update command
> used in the current code. If the deletion is of "any A record
> belonging to <FQDN>" then things will break. On the other hand, it's
> quite possible the deletion command could be to delete a specific A
> record - in which case server A would in fact leave the record alone.
> Having failed to delete the A record, it may well then not try to
> delete the PTR record either. It will however scatter error messages
> throughout the logs.
> 
I'm not familiar with the code but from a quick glance. The function
ddns_fwd_srv_rem1, seems to suggest that if it can't find the A it still
tries the PTR removal. 

case DNS_R_NXDOMAIN:
         ddns_update_lease_text(ddns_cb, NULL);

         /* Do the next operation */
         if ((ddns_cb->flags & DDNS_UPDATE_PTR) != 0) {
	/* if we have zone information get rid of it */

But I'm very willing to admit ignorance on this.

I guess I'll have to try at some point to test this. Unless anyone else
is very familiar with this and can answer this straight off.

Thanks
 

Colin

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