Looking for a pointer on getting reverse mapping with DDNS to work with DHCPD & Named.

[Alan Clegg]

I'm completely unable to fix the top-post/body comments here, so my comments are at the bottom:

On Mar 28, 2013, at 1:52 PM, Jim Bucks <jbucks at coloradostudios.com> wrote:

> No I have not tried that, but .101 is a leased IP address for a Windows workstation.
> 
> I'm willing to try it, but it seems like that would mean I would need a zone like this for all of my leased addresses???
> 
> 
> Jim
> 
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Jim Glassford <jmglass at iup.edu> wrote:
> Hi Jim,
> 
> Lost track but have you tried using the IP address of the server for the primary, 172.10.20.101 instead of 127.0.0.1?
> 
> zone dhcp.coloradostudios.com. {
>    primary 172.10.20.101;                         <----- change from 127.0.0.1  
>    key DHCP_UPDATER;
> }

I think there is a lot of confusion as to what is going on in this thread.

I was pointed to the following page earlier today (in a completely unrelated conversation), and think that reading over it might help the original poster to figure out what is going on:

   http://www.semicomplete.com/articles/dynamic-dns-with-dhcp/

AlanC
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