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Re: DHClient Exit Scripts



In <[🔎] 1AF890A5-5BF9-46C9-8C4B-B709170DD545@halblog.com>, Hal Vaughan wrote:
>I've been reading the man pages for dhclient, but I'm stuck with one key
>question I've missed.
>
>I have an exit script set up to notify me of the IP address of a particular
>system (on a LAN) whenever the IP address changes.
>
>I know whenever dhclient runs, it runs the exit scripts.  The one issue I'm
>not clear of is whether the exit scripts will be run any time the IP
>address changes, like when a lease expires.  I know it'll run at reboot or
>if networking is restarted, but will the exit scripts be run when the IP
>address is changed by the DHCP?  If it's not, is there any program that
>runs under those conditions?

I can't answer the specific question, but I knows that there are DynDNS 
clients in Debian that are capable of notifying a remote system whenever the 
local system's IP changes.  One of these clients should be able to "speak" a 
"dialect" you can process.
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