Heavy config file and vlan usage

Emmanuel Lesouef e.lesouef at crbn.fr
Wed Jun 20 14:04:25 UTC 2007


Le mardi 19 juin 2007 à 19:07 +0100, Simon Hobson a écrit :
> 
> OK, so the question is wrong !
> 
> Simple way to do this is to set ddns-domainname name to 
> ipphones.testzone.intra in the appropriate subnet declaration. Each 
> subnet can have it's own options, as can individual pools, or 
> individual hosts - and not forgetting classes.
> 
> The server will take care of updating the appropriate zone automatically.
> 
> Eg:
> 
> subnet .... {
>    ddns-domainname = "pcs.testzone.intra";
>    ....
> }
> 
> subnet .... {
>    ddns-domainname = "ipphones.testzone.intra";
>    ....
> }
> 
> So in fact the server never has to update anything other than 
> ddns-domainname so the question is the wrong question for the problem 
> !
> You almost never need to alter ddns-rev-domainname.
> 
> If you allow updates by IP address then you do not even need any zone 
> declarations in the dhcp config, it will automagically find the 
> master server (it uses the authoritative server identified in the SOA 
> record). If you do secure updates (ie by key) then you will have to 
> define each zone, which is not necessarily the same as each domain 
> name used.
> 

Ok, this sounds fine to me.

Thank you for your help.

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Emmanuel Lesouef
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