Re: Automatic DNS for dynamic clients?
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 08:57 pm, Splash Tekalal wrote:
> Hi folks!
>
> Okay here's the setup I have..
>
> 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!
>
> - Aaron
I have a similar setup. I use www.dyndns.org. I have dyndns assign my home IP
to one of their free hostnames, and in my personal domain zonefile I pointed
a CNAME at the one from dyndns. There's client software out there to update
you IP to dyndns (I use one called ddclient).
It works pretty well.
t
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