DHCPv6 and DDNS

[Philippe Clérié]

On 06/26/2015 09:10 AM, Philippe Clérié wrote:
> On 06/18/2015 12:35 PM, Philippe Clérié wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> First time on the list, mostly because I have not found my answer on
>> Debian users or anywhere else.
>>
>> For the past couple of weeks I've been trying to set up isc-dhcp-server
>> ( 4.3.1 ) on Debian Jessie for IPv6. I am at a point where the server is
>> providing addresses but I cannot get it to update the DNS server.
>>
>
>
>
> Just returning to this subject. It seems that the server works correctly
> with windows clients. At least, the one windows machine in the house is
> getting IPv4 and IPv6 addresses assigned; A and AAAA records are created
> by the DHCP server along with the respective reverse entries.
>
> I guess that proves the server configuration is perfectly adequate for
> some clients. A Macbook did not work though: the address was issued and
> used but no DNS updates were performed. Androids and Chromebooks all
> seem to be stateless only. It feels very weird that Windows does this
> correctly with BIND, but ISC's own client does not.
>

It took a while but I believe I have found my problem. It appears that 
the DHCP server does not update DNS records for static leases. DNS does 
get updated for clients that get their addresses from the subnet range.

Can anyone confirm that please?


Thanks.

-- 
Philippe

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