Re: DHCP Redundancy

> As far as the DHCP server owning the record, by default the client updates
> DNS correct? So the issue of ownership wouldn't really come into play
> would it unless the DHCP server updated the DNS server for the client? Am
> I right
on that?

Correct. But is the DHCP server updating the records?

Also, a client checks to see if it can update a record, and fails if it
doesn't have permissions or if that record is owned by someone else (or
registered by someone else).

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Paul Williams
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