Search Again: Re: Dynamic IP From: Men & Mice Support Date: Monday, November 8, 2004 Time: 7:13:27 pm If his IP changes, how will your curl command know what IP address to contact? What is needed is a dynamic DNS client. There are several ways you could crack this nut. The first couple of suggestions below assume you'll set up a dynamic zone for your friend. 1. Your friend gets a dyndns.org account, or something similar, and uses their client software. Your curl script periodically checks that hostname and updates the DNS using the nsupdate command. 2. Your friend uses nsupdate on his machine, possibly in a script, to update the zone on your server. Dynamic update messages can be sent across the Internet securely, using a shared encryption key such as your rndc key (in /var/named/conf/user_before). (You can define another key to use, but it's a bit of a hassle to do so.) 3. Your friend gets a dyndns.org account, or something similar, just as in solution 1 above. His zone on your server contains a CNAME record pointing to that name. (For mail service, the MX record points directly to that dynamic name, rather than to the CNAME alias, assuming his domain gets mail.) There are other solutions available. Chris Buxton Men & Mice - Making DNS Easy Customer Service and Sales Engineer At 6:35 PM -0800 11/8/04, Scott Haneda wrote: >A friend of mine has a small site on a dynamic IP, we thought it was static >to some point, turns out to be about a week, then it changes. Right now, I >just change the A record every now and then, I would like to automate this. > >His server can publish a IP and serve that vie http, so I can grap it from >my bind box with curl, from there, whats the best way to get this into DNS? >-- >------------------------------------------------------------- >Scott Haneda Tel: 415.898.2602 ><http://www.newgeo.com> Fax: 313.557.5052 ><scott@newgeo.com> Novato, CA U.S.A.

Messages In This Thread: Dynamic IP by Scott Haneda on Nov 8, 2004 at 6:35:56 pm Re: Dynamic IP by Men & Mice Support on Nov 8, 2004 at 7:13:27 pm Re: Dynamic IP by Scott Haneda on Nov 8, 2004 at 7:21:59 pm Re: Dynamic IP by Scott Haneda on Nov 8, 2004 at 7:26:56 pm Re: Dynamic IP by Men & Mice Support on Nov 8, 2004 at 8:18:17 pm Re: Dynamic IP by Scott Haneda on Nov 8, 2004 at 8:35:20 pm Re: Dynamic IP by Men & Mice Support on Nov 8, 2004 at 8:59:13 pm