DHCPd only upating the forward zone

Simon Hobson dhcp1 at thehobsons.co.uk
Sat Dec 19 13:53:40 UTC 2020


Dan Egli <dan at newideatest.site> wrote:

> When dhcpd sends an update to named, it only updates the forward zone (name->ip). It doesn't send an update for the reverse maping (ip->name). Did I miss a configuration setting somewhere? How can I get dhcpd to send updates to both the forward and reverse zones when it sends DNS updates?

In a correct DNS setup it's usually automagic. Can you post your dhcp config and the results from (on your dhcp server) :
dig yourdomain.tld ns
dig 10.168.192.in-addr.arpa ns

change yourdomain.tld and 10.168.192 to match your internal names/addresses.

Simon



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