Complete Guide: Installing autodns-dhcp on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) 2024

1. Install "autodns-dhcp" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to install autodns-dhcp on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                autodns-dhcp
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "autodns-dhcp" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall autodns-dhcp on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                autodns-dhcp
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the autodns-dhcp package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: autodns-dhcp
Priority: extra
Section: universe/net
Installed-Size: 74
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Santiago Garcia Mantinan
Architecture: all
Version: 0.9
Depends: bind9 | bind, dnsutils, perl | perl5, isc-dhcp-server | dhcp
Conflicts: dhcp-dns
Filename: pool/universe/a/autodns-dhcp/autodns-dhcp_0.9_all.deb
Size: 11758
MD5sum: 691863e0ff685b9d592dab0b13ba4496
SHA1: 0a05c6c5a10ff92b19060ddeab9da444c04cb247
SHA256: f24e8ed078b454eaf8f43824bd75a32761a30f28d687226e272df03280ecd345
Description-en: Automatic DNS updates for DHCP
autodns-dhcp uses bind's dynamic update features to update a zonefile
with hostnames from the dhcp leases file, this is done just once for each
hostname as the IP, MAC address and name are settled on the dhcp
configuration to have an static zone.
Description-md5: cc930c20956907d1289ff68bb3b79a3c
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu