From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 28 21:37:55 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB370106566C for ; Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:37:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f186.google.com (mail-qy0-f186.google.com [209.85.221.186]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F0098FC08 for ; Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:37:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: by qyk16 with SMTP id 16so4034597qyk.3 for ; Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:37:54 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=U1LCJkaKFKuv1tdHSX+BUBom1An5LYBFzgseon6Fj2A=; b=BywiPuEU8d8sd/VzHd5qxW39dDRLWUcwipTf+njl8Bef8A3yNmVEQoDrkUL3rsnYl7 wYWOifxrxxO0pX+lLeigfJuED4+o/1sCr/1Ro9NWrls9o17o4OOVMr+nsLd3zwwMRR5k Bw0nkVY9830yToFlPzeTj43Cs4p97nYcLPV1U= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=w9FU1njsCJwr0HooI0Y0spac0KijvJtyyVZ4weuYWG4x10zhwjwAqG6Gd21mv/MAfm cq+BGhX8Gevi8uFrdr17UbRuzysl6ocZGaeucYeqEL2efgR4OsBp3vSB7466TL5rG2te yjx0Ldan4BjIOhhVCxle1VXYkMEFrNV6+hZfI= Received: by 10.224.6.148 with SMTP id 20mr4999331qaz.203.1246225074196; Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:37:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from aryeh-desktop.istudentunion.com (ool-44c0cd7a.dyn.optonline.net [68.192.205.122]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 5sm13834058qwg.55.2009.06.28.14.37.53 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:37:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A47E2B3.8040103@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 17:37:55 -0400 From: "Aryeh M. Friedman" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090626) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Meyer References: <4A47CC07.1080506@gmail.com> <20090628170140.7169d64b@bhuda.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <20090628170140.7169d64b@bhuda.mired.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dynamic and static DNS in the samie name server X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:37:56 -0000 Mike Meyer wrote: > On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:01:11 -0400 > "Aryeh M. Friedman" wrote: > > >> We have a name server set up that contains all our static IP's (in >> office but not for remote workers because they all have dynamic >> IP's).... we currently use dns/no-ip2 to manage this but I was >> wondering if it is possible to (easily) configure our internal >> nameserver to do this? >> > > This question is really more appropriate for -questions than > -hackers. If you asked on -questions and didn't get an answer there or > someone there pointed you here, you should let us know: it's always > wise to indicate previous research. > > You also didn't say what you were using for your internal name server, > which makes the matter of "easily" hard to answer. If you're a bind > expert, it's easy. If you're not a bind expert but using bind, it > probably isn't. Personally, I use dns/dnsmasq for such situations, as > that's pretty much what it's designed to do. It's also very > light-weight, sufficiently so that the various FOSS router builds > include it. > > > Thanks for attempting to help me find the right place to post but in my experience -questions@ tends to be about "standard" usage not "non-standard" usage questions thus I asked here... yes I am using BIND (the base system one)