Hello Thomas, Thank you for the update on the change! You may identify me as "Rodney Beede" Thanks again! Rodney On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 2:27 PM, Thomas Markwalder via RT wrote: > Hello Rodney: > > You'll be pleased to learn that we've addressed this issue in our upcoming > maintenance release, 4.3.6 due out July 31st, and in 4.4.0 release date is > TBD. > > We have modified the DDNS support initialization such that the DNS related > ports will only be opened: > > 1. By the server (dhcpd) at startup if ddns-update-style is not "none" > 2. By dhclient only when and if it first attempts to do an update > 3. Never by dhcrelay. > > Prior to this all three always did the initialization at startup when DDNS > support was compiled in. > > Thank you for reporting this issue to us. Typically we like to recognize > our contributors by citing them in the release notes. If you would like to > be so noted please respond with how you'd like to be identified. > > Sincerely, > > Thomas Markwalder > ISC Software Engineering > > >