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

[Phillip Hofmeister]

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 at 05:19:16PM -0400, Mike Williams wrote:
> >"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.

Do a "dig local" on the machine running dhcpd.  If "local" can't
resolve, then that is your problem.

HTH

-- 
Phillip Hofmeister