DDNS Best practices in a complex environment?

Matus UHLAR - fantomas uhlar at fantomas.sk
Tue Sep 30 12:56:01 UTC 2008


> > > On Sep 25 2008, Jeffrey Collyer wrote:
> > > 
> > > >Is there a best practices guide anywhere for Dynamic DNS?  Basically I'm 
> > > >looking for information about how folks have rolled out Dynamic DNS in a 
> > > >large ISP like environment (University).
> > 
> > On 25.09.08 20:48, Chris Thompson wrote:
> > > By "Dynamic DNS", many people assume one means "updates by DHCP servers",
> > > but technically all it means is updating DNS zones incrementally rather
> > > than by complete replacement. You might want to clarify your requirements.

> --- Matus UHLAR - fantomas [Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 01:59:25PM +0200]: --- 
> > I thought it means updating DNS via DNS requests (by DHCP or not), while
> > updating incrementally means something different (IXFR)

On 30.09.08 08:29, jmc wrote:
> IXFR is incremental zone transfers.
> 
> Dynamic DNS to me means one of two things. having clients that obtain
> their IP addresses via DHCP update their own records in the zone, or
> having the DHCP server update the records on the client's behalf.

My point was, that "dynamic DNS" is not "incremental updating", but
"updating via DNS", no matter who requests those updates (if it's client the
itself or the DHCP server)

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