[KLUG Members] re: dhcp, BIND, and DDNS

[Mike Williams]

> "unable to add forward map from <DNS name> to <IP address>: not a zone." 


This message comes from dhcpd, BIND.  The zone in question is .local, 
and here's a zone file which I've never been much good at writing.  
Probably a few things wrong with it.  BTW, the zone file is stored in 
/var/lib/named/dyn, which according to the docs is necessary for dynamic 
updates.

$ORIGIN 
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$TTL  3600      ; 1 hour
local.                  IN SOA  moore.local.  mofmut.wmis.net. (
                                2004031201      ; serial
                                3600            ; refresh ( 1 hour)
                                900             ; retry (15 minutes)
                                604800          ; expire (1 week)
                                3600            ; minimum (1 hour)
                                )
                        NS      moore.local.
                        A       192.168.40.2
                        TXT     "chinchillacam.dynip.com"

$ORIGIN local.
localhost               A       127.0.0.1
brosnan                 A       192.168.40.254
router                  A       192.168.0.1
firewall                CNAME   brosnan
dalton                  A       192.168.40.10