Re: hmm... an idea
The IP changes every 24 hours. hmm.. If the two hosts were in the same
domain, it shouldn't make a difference (except for secondary servers),
right?
My interest in doing this is that my ISP only charges additional baudwidth
for static IPs... so, I could have a large site on a dynamic IP and a
small DNS and mail server on the dynamic.
-Paul
On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, Tod Detre wrote:
> How dynamic is the ip? What I'm getting at is that it takes time to have a
> hostname propogate through the internet (sometimes up to a week). So if you get
> this working, and if you're changing ip's every day then some computers on the other side of the world may still point to an ip that has already changed 5-7 times already.
>
> On Sun, Jul 05, 1998 at 06:42:07PM -0400, Paul Miller wrote:
> > On Sun, 5 Jul 1998, George Bonser wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, 5 Jul 1998, Paul Miller wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > I have 1 static IP and I'm thinking about getting an additional dynamic
> > > > IP. I'm not exactly sure on how DHCP works, but is there a way to have
> > > > the my DNS server (on static IP) updated when the dynamic IP changes?
> > > >
> > > > THanks
> > > > -Paul
> > >
> > > If you are wanting the host assigned by DHCP to be reachable from the
> > > internet, yeah, you will need something to update your zone file and
> > > restart DNS. There are several DYNDNS packages around, sign up for the
> > > systalk mailing list at ml.org and make an inquiry there.
> >
> > Yeah. hmm.. how will the dynamic computer know when its IP changes? Is
> > it possible to run a script to notify the name server?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -Paul
> >
> >
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