Re: bind and dynamic ip
On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 02:20:53 -0600
Alex Malinovich <demonbane@the-love-shack.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 02:06, LeVA wrote:
> > Lucas Bergman írta:
> > > LeVA <leva@az.isten.hu> writes:
> > >
> > >
> > >>I have a dynamic ip, and a server which runs bind. I have
> > >registered>a domain name to that server, and I want to use a
> > >hostname for my>dynamic ip. Can I do this? I thought it would
> > >be like, connecting to>the remote dns server, and then update
> > >the zone file, and then>reload bind. But how this is possible?
> > >Anybody knows a good howto>about this?
> > >
> > >
> > > http://www.dyndns.org/
> > >
> > > Lucas
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Oh, the good old "if you don't know how to do it, then make
> > someone else do it for you" answer. Thanks but I needed an
> > answer with a howto, or some help on how to do this on my own.
> > But I guess you could read that from my letter.
>
> Well, if the DNS server you have access to has a static IP then it
> would be possible. You'd have to register the domain name for your
> dynamic IP with the nameserver listed as the DNS server on the
> static IP you have. For example:
>
> dynamic ip name: www.mysite.com
> static ip DNS server name: dns.mystaticdns.com
>
> You set the nameserver for www.mysite.com to dns.mystaticdns.com.
> Then anytime your IP changes, you update dns.mystaticdns.com with
> that info and reload the appropriate zone. (Restarting bind would
> be one way of doing this.) Assuming that your static ip DNS server
> is running debian, it would be "/etc/init.d/bind9 restart".
>
> If, however, you don't have a nameserver with a static IP, then
> the only real alternative is to go with something such as
> dyndns.org.
>
> I don't know of any real howto's on the subject, but reading up on
> DNS in general would be a good start, followed by reading up on
> bind in particular. Good luck! :)
>
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>
Take a look at no-ip.com. You don't necessarily need a static ip.
I've had aeis.tv up through 2 ip changes (that I know of), without
more than 15 or 20 min down time while they updated the dns.
Lee
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