DDNS handling of "dumb" DHCP clients
Simon Hobson
dhcp1 at thehobsons.co.uk
Thu Aug 9 10:41:52 UTC 2012
Uwe Meyer-Gruhl wrote:
>I have a question regarding handling of DDNS updates for "dumb"
>non-Windows DHCP clients (e.g. printers):
>
>As far as I understand the documentation, the sole supported DDNS
>update style is "interim", so I only tried that:
>
>ddns-update-style interim;
>ddns-updates on;
>update-optimization off;
>do-forward-updates on;
>do-reverse-updates on;
>update-static-leases on;
>
>host printer {
> ...
> ddns-hostname printer;
> ddns-domainname print.mydomain.net;
>}
>
>Forward and reverse DDNS zones are configured, too.
I don't get to do this much these days, but my preferred method has
been to manage the DNS myself for such hosts - and then refer to them
by name in DHCP. Ie :
host printer-x {
...
fixed-address printer-x.somedomain.com ;
}
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