From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 3 20:21:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blacklamb.mykitchentable.net (ekgr-dsl3-t60.citlink.net [207.173.248.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD75137B405 for ; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 20:21:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from tagalong (unknown [192.168.1.11]) by blacklamb.mykitchentable.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 4E33DEE659; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 20:22:53 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <00d001c17c7b$1fcfac90$0b01a8c0@lc.ca.gov> From: "Drew Tomlinson" To: , Cc: References: <3.0.5.32.20011203213608.0132d5d8@mail.sage-american.com> <20011204144834.A26955@nucl03.anu.edu.au> Subject: Re: Dynamic IP Resolvers Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 20:21:19 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Lane" To: Cc: Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 7:48 PM Subject: Re: Dynamic IP Resolvers > On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 09:36:08PM -0600, jacks@sage-american.com wrote: > > A while back, some one mentioned some web sites that provide services with > > a method of resolving DNS for servers running on dynamic IPs. > > I use the services of www.dyndns.org. You go through some simple setup > on their web-site and then install a client program that monitors > your dynamic IP. I use ipcheck (requires python) and run it > from cron every five minutes. I started with www.dynip.com (about $35 US per year). Now I use www.zoneedit.com. ZoneEdit is free for up to 5 domains. It's a little more difficult to set up as they don't have a client program pre-packaged but they give an example of a lynx command that will update. Right now I update once an hour as that is the most frequent allowed and run it as a cron job. I intend to write a script that stores my current IP in a file and then checks my current IP against what is stored. If the two don't match, then update. This should allow me to have faster updates and take load off the ZoneEdit servers by only updating when necessary. HTH, Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message