Re: Automatic DNS for dynamic clients?
> Right now there's a server sitting in a data center in California,
> Mephitsune.. Mephitsune is running STABLE and using BIND9 for DNS and has
a
> static IP.. I have massive amounts of capable bandwidth, but I have a peak
> I have to watch for or I'll get billed for going over my limits..
>
> So my solution to hosting large files (such as my home made movies) is to
> get a cable modem here at home, have it connect to a second Debian machine
> (Horde) and host a private server that I can pass out the URL to friends
> with..
>
> At current, Mephitsune manages DNS for *.dreamchaos.net, and I want to get
> horde.dreamchaos.net to point at Horde..
>
> My question is, is there something I can setup between the two machines
> that will have Horde automatically report it's IP to Mephitsune on a
> schedule, then Mephitsune update the zone file and reload DNS?
>
> Any suggestions on this would be greatly helpful.. Thanks!
An easy way that I use is to have a dyndns.org dns name and make the
hostname of my domain a CNAME that points to that dyndns name.
//erik
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