From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 29 19:24:21 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F79D16A4CE for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 19:24:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from pd3mo1so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7D8F43D1F for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 19:24:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from aardvark@saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com) Received: from pd5mr3so.prod.shaw.ca (pd5mr3so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.144]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HSA0085990WB5@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 20:14:56 -0700 (MST) Received: from pn2ml3so.prod.shaw.ca (pn2ml3so-qfe0.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.121.147]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HSA00F6M90WBS@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 20:14:56 -0700 (MST) Received: from francisco.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com (h24-87-202-31.vc.shawcable.net [24.87.202.31]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HSA0090N90WEV@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 20:14:56 -0700 (MST) Received: from hardesty.hardesty.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com ([192.168.23.1]) by francisco.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i0U3UdSl039964; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 19:30:40 -0800 Received: from aardvark by hardesty.hardesty.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1AmP4x-0001lV-00; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 19:12:23 -0800 Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 19:12:23 -0800 From: Saint Aardvark the Carpeted In-reply-to: Sender: Debian User To: Evan Sayer Message-id: <20040130031223.GS3224@hardesty.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i References: cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BIND X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 03:24:21 -0000 Evan Sayer disturbed my sleep to write: > Wondering if there is a way to configure BIND to automatically update a > dynamic ip within your own dns? If not, can anyone recommend a good > simple client? Depends...are you talking about a DNS server that you're running? Google turns up this page as the first hit: http://dag.wieers.com/howto/bits/bind-ddns.php It's based on RedHat Linux, but the principle is the same and it looks like it should be easy to FreeBSD-ize. This is assuming that you're talking about updating a BIND server that you control; if you're talking about updating something like "myplace.dyndns.org", or some other similar service, you'll want to check with them to see what they recommend. > Also my isp is roadrunner, and they say that they don't > allow web services to be run on dynamic ips. Do they mean that they > block the ports literally or does it just mean they frown upon it? Again, it depends. It might mean they will send a nasty email, or it might mean it's firewalled off entirely. To see if it's the latter, try plugging your hostname into Netcraft and see if they can tell what webserver you're running, or get a friend to portscan you. HTH, Hugh -- Saint Aardvark the Carpeted aardvark@saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com Because the plural of Anecdote is Myth.