From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 3 20:34:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sage-american.com (sage-american.com [216.122.141.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1374E37B416 for ; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 20:34:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from SAGEONE (adsl-64-219-21-224.dsl.crchtx.swbell.net [64.219.21.224]) by sage-american.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id WAA02959; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 22:34:31 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20011203223443.0132d5d8@mail.sage-american.com> X-Sender: jacks@mail.sage-american.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2001 22:34:43 -0600 To: "Drew Tomlinson" , , From: jacks@sage-american.com Subject: Re: Dynamic IP Resolvers In-Reply-To: <00d001c17c7b$1fcfac90$0b01a8c0@lc.ca.gov> References: <3.0.5.32.20011203213608.0132d5d8@mail.sage-american.com> <20011204144834.A26955@nucl03.anu.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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 Drew, "zoneedit.com" is the one I had misplaced (as there are several).... thanks! That would be an interesting script... At 08:21 PM 12.3.2001 -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Greg Lane" >To: >Cc: >Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 7:48 PM >Subject: Re: Dynamic IP Resolvers > > >> On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 09:36:08PM -0600, jacks@sage-american.com >wrote: >> > A while back, some one mentioned some web sites that provide >services with >> > a method of resolving DNS for servers running on dynamic IPs. >> >> I use the services of www.dyndns.org. You go through some simple setup >> on their web-site and then install a client program that monitors >> your dynamic IP. I use ipcheck (requires python) and run it >> from cron every five minutes. > >I started with www.dynip.com (about $35 US per year). Now I use >www.zoneedit.com. ZoneEdit is free for up to 5 domains. It's a little >more difficult to set up as they don't have a client program >pre-packaged but they give an example of a lynx command that will >update. Right now I update once an hour as that is the most frequent >allowed and run it as a cron job. I intend to write a script that >stores my current IP in a file and then checks my current IP against >what is stored. If the two don't match, then update. This should allow >me to have faster updates and take load off the ZoneEdit servers by only >updating when necessary. > >HTH, > >Drew > > > Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Server Admin Sage-American http://www.sage-american.com jacks@sage-american.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message