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FortiGate DHCP works with DDNS to allow FQDN connectivity to leased IP addresses

FortiGate DHCP works with DDNS to allow FQDN connectivity to leased IP addresses

As clients are assigned IP addresses, they send back information that would be found in an A record to the FortiGate DHCP server, which can take this information and pass it back to a corporate DNS server so that even devices using leased IP address can be reached using FQDNs. You can configure the settings for this feature using the ddns-update CLI command and some other DDNS related options. Please refer to DDNS update override in the DDNS topic for further details.

FortiGate DHCP works with DDNS to allow FQDN connectivity to leased IP addresses

As clients are assigned IP addresses, they send back information that would be found in an A record to the FortiGate DHCP server, which can take this information and pass it back to a corporate DNS server so that even devices using leased IP address can be reached using FQDNs. You can configure the settings for this feature using the ddns-update CLI command and some other DDNS related options. Please refer to DDNS update override in the DDNS topic for further details.