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Chapter 9. Dynamic DNS

With the appearance of dynamically allocated addresses in DHCP and dial-up protocols such as PPP, DNS has had some catching up to do. In April 1997 RFC 2136 was published, specifying a mechanism for dynamic updates of DNS, known as DNS-UPDATE. However, before getting into that I need to introduce some new terms.

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