Hi,

I know I'm new at this forum but I hope I can get some help, because I've been learning and experimenting with this for a while and I haven't found the culprit. I've researched several sites and manuals, and although many looked promising, none solved my issue, so here I am...

I'm trying to get my Linux and Windows clients to update their DNS records via DHCP. Both bind9 and dhcp3 are working properly, but updates aren't working. Here are my config files and I hope you can help me out (I omit stuff I don't think is relevant):

named.conf.local (merged):

include "/etc/bind/rndc.key";
zone "oc.hemac.com.mx" {
type master;
file "/etc/bind/oc.hemac.com.mx.hosts";
allow-update { key "rndc-key"; };
};
zone "168.192.in-addr.arpa" {
type master;
file "/etc/bind/192.168.rev";
allow-update { key "rndc-key"; };
};

dhcpd.conf:
authoritative;
include "/etc/dhcp3/rndc.key"; << this file is a copy of bind's key
subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.0.0 {
option domain-name-servers 192.168.1.1;
option domain-name "oc.hemac.com.mx.";
authoritative;
deny client-updates;
allow unknown-clients;
ddns-updates on;
ddns-update-style interim;
ddns-rev-domainname "168.192.in-addr.arpa.";
ddns-domainname "oc.hemac.com.mx.";
ignore client-updates;
zone 168.192.in-addr.arpa. {
primary 127.0.0.1;
key "rndc-key";
}
}
zone oc.hemac.com.mx. {
primary 127.0.0.1;
key rndc-key;
}

Well, I think that's all.

There are no errors on the logs, and the clients do get an IP address from DHCP, but no records are created on the DNS server.

Thanks in advance!

I've never used this, but a quick look at the dhcpd.conf manpage shows that you can enable logging for the dns updates. Have you tried that? (search for 'logging' in the manpage). That might give you the information that you need, because otherwise your setup seems to be right out of the manpage.

Actually, logging has to be enabled for bind, not for dhcp -- took me a while to figure that out

I've enabled it, but it throws no hints at all...

As an aside, I've tried manually doing an nsupdate, and it sorta works, but I can only resolve the host to the IP, not the other way around. Maybe it's because I don't know how to use nsupdate, but this is what I tried:

# nsupdate -y my-key:somekey
update add hostname 86400 A 192.168.0.123
send

And after that I can do an nslookup for the hostname, but not for the IP address...

If anyone else has a hint on what the issue could be, by all means, help a clueless soul out