Search Again: Re: Dynamic IP From: Scott Haneda Date: Monday, November 8, 2004 Time: 7:21:59 pm on 11/8/04 7:12 PM, Men & Mice Support at cbuxton@menandmice.com wrote: > If his IP changes, how will your curl command know what IP address to contact? Sorry, I meant to say a script on his machine will simply load a certain site, for which I can then extract his IP from the logs. > 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. Good plan, I will look into this. > 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.) Don't trust a windows machine checking in like that :-) > There are other solutions available. Thanks. -- ------------------------------------------------------------- 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