Resevered records dissapearing

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Situation: We have 50+ HP printers that have ip address's reserved on our
W2K DHCP servers which are set to always dynamically update DNS. This
originally worked successfully and clients were able to use the DNS names to
print, however after a month now we are finding that the DNS records are
being removed from DNS and therefore the clients printing fails. To resolve
this the printer just needs to be powered off and on but obviouysly this is
not ideal.

Can this be anything to do with the lease expiration date and scavenging?
Does anyone have any ideas? We dont really want to have to manually add each
printer to DNS.

 

[Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]]

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Situation: We have 50+ HP printers that have ip
address's reserved on our W2K DHCP servers which are set
to always dynamically update DNS. This originally worked
successfully and clients were able to use the DNS names
to print, however after a month now we are finding that
the DNS records are being removed from DNS and therefore
the clients printing fails. To resolve this the printer
just needs to be powered off and on but obviouysly this
is not ideal.

Can this be anything to do with the lease expiration date
and scavenging? Does anyone have any ideas? We dont
really want to have to manually add each printer to DNS.

Does the record expire before the lease expires?
Extend the scavenging time length beyond the lease time length so that the
printers have to renew IP lease earlier. Though I'm not sure how this works
with reserved addresses. If they are using the DNS name I'm not sure why you
have reserved addresses. I would think that since your using reserved
addresses, you would use static records.