From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 29 19:38:20 2004 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 4A8CD16A4CE for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 19:38:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.relia.net (mail.relia.net [207.173.156.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F27A43D41 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 19:38:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joe@joe-lewis.com) Received: from [207.173.181.72] (helo=joe-lewis.com) by mail.relia.net (Exim 4.24 #1 (FreeBSD 4.7)) protocol: esmtp id 1AmPTy-000A8R-V7 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 20:38:15 -0700 Message-ID: <4019D13E.9030604@joe-lewis.com> Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 20:36:30 -0700 From: Joe Lewis User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20040130031223.GS3224@hardesty.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com> In-Reply-To: <20040130031223.GS3224@hardesty.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: BIND 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: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 03:38:20 -0000 Saint Aardvark the Carpeted wrote: >Evan Sayer disturbed my sleep to write: > > >>Wondering if there is a way to configure BIND to automatically update a >>dynamic ip within your own dns? If not, can anyone recommend a good >>simple client? >> >> > >Depends...are you talking about a DNS server that you're running? >Google turns up this page as the first hit: > > http://dag.wieers.com/howto/bits/bind-ddns.php > >It's based on RedHat Linux, but the principle is the same and it looks >like it should be easy to FreeBSD-ize. > It is easily done with FreeBSD. I had it set up on a home network, doing DHCP to update the DNS with the hostname of the client when activated. That way, it was easier to network test certain devices. Do a "man bind" (I think that's the man page, can't recall for sure, but it is there somewhere). >This is assuming that you're talking about updating a BIND server that >you control; if you're talking about updating something like >"myplace.dyndns.org", or some other similar service, you'll want to >check with them to see what they recommend. > That is true. If you control BIND, the world is your playground. You might also want to take a look at SQLBIND, as it is BIND after being patched to run off of a database. That could open up more options if you wish. >>Also my isp is roadrunner, and they say that they don't >>allow web services to be run on dynamic ips. Do they mean that they >>block the ports literally or does it just mean they frown upon it? >> It means they aren't going to allow dynamic DNS updates to their DNS servers. I work for an ISP, and the last thing I want to do is open up the DNS for dynamic updates. That becomes a security nightmare. Joe Lewis