chrisg@warpspeed.com.au (Chris Graham [WarpSpeed]) wrote:


>
> Does AIX's bind/named support Dynamic DNS updates from the DHCP
> server, ie DDNS?
>
> I know that originally IBM did their own implementation off of bind
> 4.9<something>. Well, they did for OS/2, and I was under the
> impression that that came from AIX to start with.
>

The name daemon that IBM ships with AIX has been ISC's bind for as
long as I can remember. In aix433, you get to choose between bind4 and
bind8, and starting with aix52 you can even choose bind9. You can
switch between them by making the symlinks in /usr/sbin point to the
correct named version.

Im not sure in which named version ISC introduced DDNS support, but as
long as you stick with that version you should be fine.

The AIX dhcp daemon however, unfortunately is not ISC's dhcp daemon
but their own implementation at least in aix433. According to the
documentation though it should support DDNS just fine as well.



You can check out the online docs at:

https://techsupport.services.ibm.com/server/library



Sincerely,

John Smith