Re: dhclient complains Can't update forward map no such RRset

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Subject:	Re: dhclient complains Can't update forward map no such RRset
Group:	Bind-users
From:	Mark Andrews
Date:	28 Mar 2006

> Okay I am at a loss here and hope somebody can assist me with
> troubleshooting my current configuration issues. I read through the
> man pages for dhcp, bind, dhclient, and relevant config files and I
> have not been able to find a cure to my issue.
>
> I have two servers: the first is a server running dhclient/dhcpd that
> is sending ddns updates to a primary name server.
>
> dhclient is complaining: "Mar 26 13:56:48 protect1 dhclient: Can't
> update forward map protect1.domain.com. to 100.100.100.100: no such
> RRset"

Look at log messages that preceed this message. You will find
that the update is a conditional update and this messages is
saying that the preconditions are not being met.

> I do not have a good understanding of what the above error message
> means and/or how to cure it. What on earth am I doing wrong?
>
> --- snip ---
>
> # dhclient -v
> Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.2-RedHat
>
> --- snip ---
>
> here is my dhclient configuration
>
> ---s nip ----
>
> # cat /etc/dhclient-eth0.conf
> send host-name "machine.hostname.com.";
> send fqdn.fqdn "machine.hostname.com.";
> send fqdn.encoded on;
> send fqdn.server-update off;
>
> key machine.hostname.com {
> algorithm HMAC-MD5;
> secret "a;dflkja;sldkfja;lkdjq;wlekjr;qlkwejr;lqkwjer;lkqjewr";
> }
>
> zone hostname.com {
> primary 216.218.220.22;
> key "machine.hostname.com";
> }
>
> interface "eth0" {
> send host-name "machine.hostname.com.";
> send dhcp-client-identifier 00:C0:F0:1F:21:E2;
> send dhcp-lease-time 3600;
> supersede domain-name "host.hostname.com hostname.com";
> prepend domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1;
> request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, time-offset, routers,
> domain-name, domain-\
> name-servers, host-name;
> require subnet-mask, domain-name-servers;
> script "/sbin/dhclient-script";
> }
>
> ---- snip ----
>
> Cheers,
>
> Noah
>
>
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Mark Andrews, ISC
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