Search Again: Re: Dynamic IP From: Scott Haneda Date: Monday, November 8, 2004 Time: 8:35:20 pm on 11/8/04 8:17 PM, Men & Mice Support at cbuxton@menandmice.com wrote: > A dynamic DNS client should be available from whatever dynamic DNS > system your friend chooses to use. However, if you're talking about > him hitting your web server periodically, then it's not really > necessary. > > So I'd guess you're asking about nsupdate. You can use something like this: > > nsupdate -k /var/named/conf/user_before data > > where data is a return-separated list of statements. If you want to > just replace the A record named "example.com" with a new one each > time, you can use statements like this: > > zone example.com > update delete example.com A > update add example.com 900 A ip-addr > send > > The "900" is a TTL of 15 minutes. Replace "ip-addr" with the new IP address. Perfect, and I don't have to tell bind anything special in re to dynamic zones? It knows to reload the zone with the use of nsupdate? To confirm nsupdate -k /var/named/conf/user_before data.txt Cat data.txt zone example.com update delete example.com A update add example.com 900 A ip-addr send -- ------------------------------------------------------------- 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