Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2001 22:34:43 -0600 From: jacks@sage-american.com To: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net>, <gregory.lane@anu.edu.au>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Dynamic IP Resolvers Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20011203223443.0132d5d8@mail.sage-american.com> In-Reply-To: <00d001c17c7b$1fcfac90$0b01a8c0@lc.ca.gov> References: <3.0.5.32.20011203213608.0132d5d8@mail.sage-american.com> <20011204144834.A26955@nucl03.anu.edu.au>
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Drew, "zoneedit.com" is the one I had misplaced (as there are several).... thanks! That would be an interesting script... At 08:21 PM 12.3.2001 -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Greg Lane" <gregory.lane@anu.edu.au> >To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> >Cc: <jacks@sage-american.com> >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 > > > Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Server Admin Sage-American http://www.sage-american.com jacks@sage-american.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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