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| -rw-r--r-- | server/dhcpd.conf.5 | 12 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/server/dhcpd.conf.5 b/server/dhcpd.conf.5 index be624792..2c63f9c7 100644 --- a/server/dhcpd.conf.5 +++ b/server/dhcpd.conf.5 @@ -1159,20 +1159,16 @@ sends a fully-qualified domain name in the \fBfqdn\fR option, the server uses only the leftmost part of the domain name - in the example above, "jschmoe" instead of "jschmoe.radish.org". .PP +If the defaults for choosing the host name are not appropriate +you can write your own statement to set the ddns-hostname variable +as you wish. +.PP Further, if the \fIignore client-updates;\fR directive is used, then the server will in addition send a response in the DHCP packet, using the FQDN Option, that implies to the client that it should perform its own updates if it chooses to do so. With \fIdeny client-updates;\fR, a response is sent which indicates the client may not perform updates. .PP -Also, if the -.I use-host-decl-names -configuration option is enabled, then the host declaration\'s -.I hostname -will be used in place of the -.I hostname -option, and the same rules will apply as described above. -.PP Both the standard and interim options also include a method to allow more than one DHCP server to update the DNS database without accidentally deleting A records that shouldn\'t be deleted nor failing |