Re: DNS agent for dynamic IP addresses
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 04:57:19AM +0000, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 17:09 -0400, Carl Fink wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Sure you do, DHCP doesn't change your IP unless you release it or you're
> using an especially craptastic ISP. You might want to read up on how
> DHCP works before saying something like that.
OK, so actual experience is trumped by generic references to some sort of
unspecified documentation? Realize that real ISPs, notably a friend of
mine's, do in fact change his IP address at least once per day.
Mebbe they shouldn't. They do.
> > 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?
>
> dyndns.org does that, too.
I know. But as I wrote, I want to use my own server running BIND.
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