I think you are correct. RFC 2136 seems to be focused on the server rather than the query client.
On Wed, 2012-02-22 at 17:39 -0600, Bob Gustafson wrote: > It appears as though the DDNS is not updating properly, might be useful > information. > > Johan Braeken says: > Observed behaviour: > > When the IP address on the WAN interface changes, nothing > happens. > There is also nothing logged regarding Dynamic DNS updates. > > Expected behaviour: > > DNS server should be updated. > > Extra information: > > 1: DNS server updates work when the RFC 2136 configuration is > opened and saved. > 2: When in addition to the RFC 2136 entry a "dummy entry" is > made under the "DynDNS"-tab, the RFC 2136 configuration is also > working upon IP changes. > > I suspect there is somewhere a check to see if Dynamic DNS is > configured when the IP address changes, but the RFC 2136 > configuration is not taken into account. > > On Wed, 2012-02-22 at 18:33 -0500, Yehuda Katz wrote: > > I do not have a RFC 2136 DNS setup to debug this with. > > It is probably not related because the DynDNS and RFC 2136 features > > are basically completely separate. > > > > > > - Y > > > > > > On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Bob Gustafson <[email protected]> wrote: > > See also http://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/2166 > > > > On Wed, 2012-02-22 at 18:20 -0500, Yehuda Katz wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Yehuda Katz > > <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Karl Fife > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > My question very specifically was whether is > > it > > > possible to force an update WITHOUT changing > > the > > > interface address (i.e. without changing the > > address > > > as a method of making the IP different than > > the cached > > > IP) > > > > > > Does anyone know if it is possible? > > > Should the client be tweaked to check the > > DNS host in > > > addition to checking the cached value, or > > have > > > something like a "force update" function? > > > > > > > > > > > > I am looking at the feasibility of adding this > > feature myself. > > > It may take me until next week due to my school work > > (I am a > > > full time college student). > > > > > > > > > Turns out that there is a bug in the update code. The cache > > filenames > > > are not always generated the same way. See this redmine > > > bug: http://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/2228 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > List mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > List mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > List mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list > > > _______________________________________________ > List mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
