DNS agent for dynamic IP addresses
Most consumer grade ISPs (cable ISPs, aDSL) use DHCP, so you have no
guarantee you'll have the same IP address five minutes after you get it.
Some (my own provider, Optimum Online for one) rarely change the address,
but who wants to count on that always being the case?
Organizations like dyndns.org and no-ip.org have agents you can run on your
system, which report back to the central DNS server when your IP address
changes. For instance, you can set up yournamehere.no-ip.org for your
laptop, and whenever DHCP renews your address, the agent reports back to
no-ip.org, so yournamehere.no-ip.org still points to the laptop.
I prefer to host my own DNS on my own server, if only to keep my memory of
how to configure BIND relatively fresh. Does anyone know of a similar agent
that pairs with a daemon I can run on my DNS server, to track the IP address
of my own laptop and desktop boxes and point subdomain1.finknetwork.com and
subdomain2.finknetwork.com to them?
Thanks.
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