From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 11 02:52:12 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FB6E37B401 for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 02:52:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (A17-250-248-97.apple.com [17.250.248.97]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8945743F85 for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 02:52:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joefat@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (smtpin07-en2 [10.13.10.152]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id h5B9qBID019084; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 02:52:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mac.com (public1-brig1-6-cust31.brig.broadband.ntl.com [80.0.158.31]) (authenticated bits=0) by mac.com (Xserve/8.12.9/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id h5B9q5Mh021889; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 02:52:06 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 10:51:58 +0100 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v552) To: Jay Buhrt From: joefat In-Reply-To: <20030611052438.80635.qmail@web20511.mail.yahoo.com> Message-Id: <57525EE2-9BF2-11D7-87C6-0030654886A6@mac.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.552) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dynamic DNS (DDNS) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 09:52:12 -0000 Hi there Jay, On Wednesday, June 11, 2003, at 06:24 AM, Jay Buhrt wrote: > Hello. I am on Comcast CABLE and the DHCP lease is > only 4 days to expire, all the time. So my IP changes > every four days. I was wondering in FreeBSD > (FreeBSD4.8) how I can set up Dynamic DNS. I checked > the online docs and I could not find anything on DDNS, > is it some rc.x file or a file in /etc for me to edit? > I would be more than happy if you got back with me > A.S.A.P. Thanks. > \ You need the ez-ipupdate port /usr/ports/net/ez-ipupdate http://www.gusnet.cx/proj/ez-ipupdate/ Watch out for trailing whitespace in the config file! Matt Ryan Director, Loose Connection Ltd --------------------------------------- Matt@looseconnection.com http://looseconnection.com 07977 237476 --------------------------------------- Wireless Networking & Internet Services