RE: DHCP Server does not update DNS

From: Sergio Moreno (Sergiom_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 04/22/04 

Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 19:14:40 GMT

Hello,
did you apply a new group policy for dynamic updates to the clients? take a look at the "Register PTR Records" section in the following KB article
New Group Policies for DNS in Windows Server 2003 WGID:358
ID: 294785

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>From: "Andrew" <a@a.net>
>Subject: DHCP Server does not update DNS
>Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 13:16:47 +0200
>
>Hi to all.
>This is an "academical question" as we says in my country... that is: all is
>functioning well, even if there is an incorrect behaviour (on my opinion) of
>the DHCP server by registering RR of its clients.
>
>I've configured a "all-in-one" server running Windows Server 2003 and acting
>as DC, DNS server, DHCP server, Exchange 2003, etc. (it's horrible, I
>know...).
>Since clients get their IP address by DHCP, I configured the DHCP server to
>always update (and discard when lease expires) both A and PTR RR of its
>clients in the Active Directory integrated DNS forward and lookup zones.
>I know that the default behaviour of DDNS Microsoft clients is always to
>request to the DNS server the update of their A RR, while leaving the DHCP
>server updating their PTR RR.
>
>What I think to be abnormal is that: I can see that all clients update both
>their A and PTR RR, and when I configure them not to "register this
>connection's addresses in DNS", the DHCP is not able to update both of
>them!!!
>By whatching in the DNS debug log, I can confirm you that DHCP server
>actually does not send any update request to the DNS server, so it does not
>seem to be a permission problem onto the Active Directory RR objects... what
>it can be?
>(Please note that a Windows 2000 DNS and DHCP server configured in the same
>way had worked fine - always updating al least PTR RR - for a lot of months.
>
>Thanks to any reply.
>
>Andrew
>
>
> 

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