From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 27 20:51:08 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 D760916A4CE for ; Sat, 27 Dec 2003 20:51:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.44]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D604D43D48 for ; Sat, 27 Dec 2003 20:51:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from paulbeard@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (smtpin08-en2 [10.13.10.153]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id hBS4scv9022784; Sat, 27 Dec 2003 20:54:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.8] (12-228-114-247.client.attbi.com [12.228.114.247]) (authenticated bits=0)hBS4p7mP024843; Sat, 27 Dec 2003 20:51:07 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <5A7907B6-3810-11D8-B806-000A95CCF8C4@san.rr.com> References: <5A7907B6-3810-11D8-B806-000A95CCF8C4@san.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v609) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <713996F8-38F1-11D8-98AE-000A95BBCCF8@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: paul beard Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 20:51:04 -0800 To: Evan Sayer X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.609) cc: freebsd-questions@freeBSD.org Subject: Re: Dynamic DNS Updates 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: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 04:51:09 -0000 On Dec 26, 2003, at 5:59 PM, Evan Sayer wrote: > I would like to know how to make my server running 4.9 update my > networks Dynamic Ip address on my domains DNS servers. My ip is > always changing because it's dynamic, so a domain is essentially > pointless unless i can get this up and running. You could say i want > my domain to function as though it were assigned to a Static IP. I > have been googleing for hours, and i can't understand any of it. > Please be advised, i am somewhat new to FreeBSD. > If you have a domain, I think you need to look into something like zoneedit.com: the dyndns and no-ip,org solutions, at least for free, don't cover domains outside their own namespace. With zoneedit you can have up to 5 domains for free. To keep them in sync with your dynamic host, you could use zoneclient.py (http://zoneclient.sourceforge.net/). It's worked fine for me so far (touch simulated woodgrain). -- Paul Beard paulbeard [at] mac.com