On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 01:07 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > 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. That's not a real ISP then, it falls well inside the craptastic category. Change ISP. > > > 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. You need a minimum of two if you're expecting to delegate your own zone. One will NOT get 'er done. -- Paul Johnson baloo@ursine.ca
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