dhcpd and ddns: updating only certain dns servers

Simon Hobson dhcp1 at thehobsons.co.uk
Wed May 9 13:55:42 UTC 2007


Christoph Kaegi wrote:

>  > You mean they can be connected TO as public hosts ?
>
>Most of them can't be connected TO directly, but they
>can directly connect to hosts on the internet and then
>they should have correct dns- and reversedns names.
>(at least I thought that would be responsible behaviour)

How about something of the form :

a.b.c.d PTR d.c.dynamic.somedomain.com

Makes it perfectly clear that it's a dynamically assigned address, 
and gives you something to go on if you get a complaint with just the 
dns name and not the IP !

I think it can be done with $GENERATE statements in BIND


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