DDNS and fedora
Da Rock
rock_on_the_web at comcen.com.au
Fri Apr 4 08:42:19 UTC 2008
On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 11:15 +0300, Waleed Harbi wrote:
> Hi Da Rock,
>
> It will much better if you draw your network diagram or explain it
> because some network devices support DDNS suck as Linksys, I have
> found this links explain how to configure DDNS on FC4 it should be
> same:
>
> http://www.howtoforge.com/fedora_dynamic_dns
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-networking-3/dynamic-dns-setup-for-either-fedora-core-client-584754/
> http://sipx-wiki.calivia.com/index.php/HowTo_Configure_DHCP_and_DNS_Servers
>
> I hope they are useful...
>
> On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 10:06 AM, Da Rock
> <rock_on_the_web at comcen.com.au> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 16:37 +1030, Tim wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 15:15 +1000, Da Rock wrote:
> > > I have a ddns network, which does work but it needs to
> have the hostname
> > > sent to it. Ie; dhclient -H works, but unless it is run
> manually the
> > > forward and reverse mapping is not done by dhcpd.
> > >
> > > I checked that dhclient.conf has send hostname in it, but
> I doubt very
> > > much that it is being read as I have made changes there to
> no effect. I
> > > believe somewhere in the scripting there is an issue- the
> hostname
> > > settings getting overridden or something.
> > >
> > > I've checked the man pages, and they say to only adjust
> dhclient.conf,
> > > or add hooks. I've adjusted the hostname settings
> everywhere (not
> > > simultaneously) to see if it'll work- ng.
> > >
> > > Anyone else got ddns to work here and know what's missing?
> BTW I'm
> > > testing on a wifi connection, but I doubt thats the
> problem.
> >
> > Which version of Fedora are you using? I'm guessing 8, but
> that's only
> > a guess. It may affect the answers you'll get.
> >
> > Post your dhclient.conf file, so people can see what you've
> done.
> >
> > Tell us more about your DHCP server, too. Versions,
> configuration
> > details, etc.
> >
> > I'm not using FC8, but I do use dynamic DNS tied in with my
> DHCP server,
> > clients get assigned addresses, their names get entered into
> the local
> > DNS, and I haven't had to customise their dhclient.conf
> files for it.
>
>
> My clients send their own hostnames (there is a reason for
> this).
> According to all information available on the matter the
> dhclient.conf
> is where you need to set the dhclient -H option for
> automation. And I
> have tested this option manually and it works. So what do I
> have to hack
> to stop the stupid scripting from overriding this? Even the
> scripting
> information says to customise the conf file... but this
> doesn't work.
>
> Apparently the networking hasn't changed much since FC4, but
> if it
> matters I'm running 8.
I'd really rather not have to put up all my config for security reasons.
Especially considering that by running the dhclient manually actually
works (-H AND -cf). The problem exists in the enormous complexity of
network scripts that Fedora uses. It simply refuses to read the
dhclient.conf- so why would that be?
>
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