Hi Johan,

Have you considered having the dhcpd server send the ddns info directly to
bind?  I was about to give that a try.  (ddns-hostname in the dhcpd config
template)

James

On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 1:04 AM, Johan Sunnerstig <[email protected]
> wrote:

> Hello.
> I have Cobbler setup and working nicely, but a new usage scenario has
> shown up for me.
> I'll need to be able to deploy hosts using DHCP and having the host
> register itself using DDNS and TSIG. One problem here is that there are
> several different TSIG keys for different subdomains, so there will be some
> conditionals.
> I also have Puppet running so worst case I could do it with that, but what
> would be really neat would be setting the hostname during the kickstart and
> having it register immediately so that you could just SSH into the host
> using the hostname right away.
>
> Right now I'm thinking about having a script ask for the hostname and
> domain name in two separate reads, then doing a case statement to determine
> the TSIG, and finally using a here document to write the dhclient.conf so
> the host would register when it comes up after the post-install reboot.
> Does this seem like a sensible approach or am I missing some nifty builtin
> function that could handle this better?
>
> We're using ISC BIND/DHCPD and I just upgraded to Cobbler 2.2 by the way.
>
> Regards
> Johan Sunnerstig
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