On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 22:22:46 +1000
"Paul (NCC/CS.)" <pts@bom.gov.au> wrote:

> 
> Hi, 
> how can I get updates into the dns from dhcpd when 
> a new machine comes on my network?
> 
> If i add a new machine, I give it a name and it gets 
> an address from being a dhcp client. But the dhcp server
> that also runs named can't seem to add the new name
> to the dns database. Quite debilitating.
> 
> In the client I have in dhclient.conf
> send host-name "laddy"; 
> 
> So I think it's something in named.conf on the server.
> But what?
> ( I have a server machine that does named and dhcpd ).
> 
See http://www.ops.ietf.org/dns/dynupd/secure-ddns-howto.html .  I've
been using the dhclient-exit-hooks variant for several years.


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb