From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 28 2: 3:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bryden.apana.org.au (bryden.apana.org.au [203.3.126.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3F7237B422 for ; Mon, 28 May 2001 02:03:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@brizzie.org) Received: from oracle ([192.168.0.3]) by bryden.apana.org.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA68668; Mon, 28 May 2001 19:02:01 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@brizzie.org) Message-ID: <00b001c0e755$0e8aaea0$0300a8c0@oracle> From: "Doug Young" To: "Keith Spencer" , "fbsd" References: <20010528084855.90366.qmail@web12003.mail.yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Dynamic ip scripting <- How to update my zone? Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 19:03:24 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2462.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hi all, > I have a primary dns server on an isdn machine (fbsd) > This is my web server. I have a adsl freebsd box for > my lan to surf with. It is by nature of my isp dynamic > ip and boots me off around each 24 hrs. A pain! I'd > love to ditch the ISDN line since it is outrageous > expensive here in Australia...$4000 just to lease it. I understand there is a major legal challenge pending on the matter of Tel$tra's ISDN monopoly .... the word is that other carriers will be able to do the connections within a few months (NB: connections not data which they can already provide at a fraction of the price) Its not a good idea to tempt fate by using dynamic DNS with ADSL in OZ ... Tel$tra runs regular portscans & is quite within its rights to terminate customers running servers on ADSL. I did try to figure out a workaround by firewalling all relevant ports on the ADSL gateway machine & using VPN so I could run a mailserver with a public IP "borrowed" from elsewhere, but it doesn't appear that FreeBSD renditions of VPN clients are usable yet. The only halfway workable solution I'm aware of at this point in time is to co-host a box on a network with adequate unused public IPs (eg one of the Apana POPs if you live within local radius of one & the local management committee will allow it) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message