ddns-hostname problems - DDNS updates not sent

[Daniel Pocock]

On 05/07/13 19:20, Steven Carr wrote:
> You might want to send bugs to dhcp-bugs at isc.org
>
> (I so wish the ISC would publicise their bug tracking, equally git/hg
> source code repos would be good).

Thanks, I'm cc'ing dhcp-bugs

Have other people had problems with DHCPv6 like this?  I found some
posts suggesting it works and others suggesting that it doesn't.

There was also some discussion in Ubuntu:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/isc-dhcp/+bug/1088682/

and it appears they pulled support for "fqdn.fqdn" in their default
client install

I've just tried the dhcpd package from Debian unstable (4.2.4-6) and
that has the same problem


>
> On 5 July 2013 17:46, Daniel Pocock <daniel at pocock.com.au> wrote:
>> Package: isc-dhcp-server
>> Version: 4.2.2.dfsg.1-5+deb70u6
>> Severity: important
>>
>> I've found that DDNS updates are only sent if ddns-hostname is
>> statically defined, e.g.
>>
>> ddns-hostname "some-name";
>>
>> Of course, this is not useful because dhcpd will then use the value
>> "some-name" as the hostname of every host and the real hostnames won't
>> be in DNS at all.
>>
>> On the client side, I've tried many different permutations, for example,
>> the Debian default is to send
>>
>> send host-name = gethostname();
>>
>> but I've also tried commenting that out and using:
>>
>> send fqdn.fqdn "hostname.example.org."
>> send fqdn.encoded on;
>> send fqdn.server-update off;
>> also request fqdn, dhcp6.fqdn;
>>
>> but it doesn't make any difference.
>>
>> On the server side, I tried various permutations as well:
>>
>> - not setting ddns-hostname at all
>>
>> ddns-hostname = pick (option fqdn.hostname, option host-name);
>>
>> and various other things I've seen in examples, such as
>>
>> option host-name = config-option server.ddns-hostname;
>>
>> option server.ddns-domainname = config-option host-name;
>>
>>
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