From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 16 10:20:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from karon.dynas.se (karon.dynas.se [192.71.43.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EBA5D37B671 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 10:20:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 87991 invoked from network); 16 Oct 2000 17:20:07 -0000 Received: from spirit.sto.dynas.se (HELO spirit.dynas.se) (172.16.1.10) by karon.sto.dynas.se with SMTP; 16 Oct 2000 17:20:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 16890 invoked from network); 16 Oct 2000 17:20:22 -0000 Received: from explorer.rsa.com (10.81.217.59) by spirit.dynas.se with SMTP; 16 Oct 2000 17:20:22 -0000 Received: (from mikko@localhost) by explorer.rsa.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e9GHJtH06794; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 10:19:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mikko) Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 10:19:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Mikko Tyolajarvi Message-Id: <200010161719.e9GHJtH06794@explorer.rsa.com> To: mwm@mired.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dynamic DNS server on freebsd? Newsgroups: local.freebsd-questions References: <14825.24053.455214.811803@guru.mired.org> X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.6 (NOV) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In local.freebsd-questions you write: >Well, the web site didn't turn up anything. I'd like to set up a >dynamic DNS server on a FreeBSD box. If you're not familiar with the >concept, A machine that boots with a dynamic IP addresses runs a >client whenever the IP address changes, thus causing the DNS server to >change it's records so that the name for that machine now maps to the >new ip address. >Any pointers - especially to software - greatly appreciated. If your clients get their addresses from a DHCP server, and that DHCP server will be running on FreeBSD - use the "isc-dhcp3" port. It supports DDNS updates, as does the BIND version that comes with FreeBSD. For a general client that can send DNS update requests to BIND, see "man nsupdate." The rest is a small matter of configuration :-) $.02, /Mikko -- Mikko Työläjärvi_______________________________________mikko@rsasecurity.com RSA Security To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message