BIND, DHCP and DDNS

[Sergey Nikolaev]

Thanks for reply James.

Does that mean that I have to create a subdomain?
Let say I have domain: mydomain.com. Should I create a domain called, for
example, dhcp.mydomain.com and allow dhcp updates for this subdomain only?

Sergey

James Raftery wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 10:20:34AM -0400, Sergey Nikolaev wrote:
> > Now, how do I make changes to the DNS server table in such a way that my
> > changes do not interfere with the changes the DHCP server makes.
>
> I would suggest never mixing dynamic and non-dynamic information. I
> would delegate a zone for the dhcp clients and consider that to be a
> 'dynamic zone' that doesn't get touched by hand.
> Your current zone would then considered out-of-bounds for the dhcp stuff
> and manual changes can be made without interfering in dynamic
> operations.
>
> Regards,
>
> james
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