Dynamic Host DNS Registration

[Kevin Darcy]

Jim Logan wrote:

>Hello everyone,
>
>I am new to this list and to bind, so please forgive any naive 
>questions.  I've tried searching for an answer, but I can't find one.  
>Maybe I'm searching on the wrong keywords?
>
>I have successfully set up a DNS server behind my firewall/NAT router 
>that resolves my local names to local IP addresses.  I am now trying to 
>add the ability to have Windows XP machines register their IP addresses 
>and local host names with the DNS server.  I've been taking things one 
>step at a time while I learn about BIND, so I'm leaving my DNS server 
>completely insecure for the moment.
>
>Here's the problem.  The Windows XP event log is showing a failure, but 
>I can't see anything that indicates a failure or denial on the DNS side, 
>even though the zone files never change.  I do see messages in response 
>to the registration in the query log, and I do see debugging trace 
>messages in named.run, but I'm seeing nothing obvious that says the 
>update is failing.  The closest thing I see in the debugging messages is:
>
>    req: leaving (JimLogan.localhost, rcode 0)
>    make_rr(localhost, 13a000, bfffeb34, 476, 1) 45 zone 2 ttl 86400
>
>(BTW, I haven't gotten around to changing the name of my "localhost" 
>zone to a different name, like "local".  I hope that's not a factor.  I 
>inherited that zone name from the Mac OS X configuration and never 
>changed it.)
>
>I've tried setting the following within the localhost and reverse-lookup 
>zones without effect:
>
>    * allow-update { all; };
>    * allow-update { mynet; }; (where mynet is defined at the top of the
>      file as "acl mynet { 192.168.123.0/24; 127.0.0.1; };")
>    * not mentioning allow-update at all
>  
>
Sounds like the Windows boxes can't find the master server for the zone. 
Is the MNAME field of your SOA record set properly? And is that server 
also referred to by one of the NS records for the zone?

Beyond that, it might be some sort of config problem on the client side. 
Can't help you there...

                                                                         
                                                         - Kevin