DDNS for multiple zones

[John Miller]

Hi Kyle,

Since you're doing this with servers, could you just create a host group
for each of VMware, Linux, and Windows, put your hosts in there, then
specify a ddns-domainname for each group?

John
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John Miller
Systems Engineer
Brandeis University
johnmill at brandeis.edu
(781) 736-4619

On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Kyle Johnson <kjohnson at fixertec.net> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I am attempting to configure a failover DHCP solution with DDNS and am
> running into an issue with isc-dhcpd version 4.1.1.  The issue seems to be
> that if the ddns-domainname option is not configured in dhcpd.conf, the
> DDNS update is not sent to the DNS server for any zone.  That is, with
> ddns-domainame commented out, dhcpd does not attempt to do any type of DDNS
> updates.
>
> Configuring a single ddns-domainname will not work as we have multiple
> zones, each for a different domain.  For this to work, I imagine that the
> client (e.g. ESXi hosts, linux and windows servers) would need to send a
> FQDN, which the DHCP server would then need to use when sending the DDNS
> update to the DNS server.
>
> What is the correct way to configure both DHCP and my clients to allow
> DDNS to work for multiple zones (domains)?
>
> Thanks,
> Kyle
>
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