Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 06:00:11 +0100 From: Kjell <la3sg@sensewave.com> To: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dynamic IP Resolvers Message-ID: <20011204060000.7A15C8023@mail.broadpark.no> 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> <00d001c17c7b$1fcfac90$0b01a8c0@lc.ca.gov>
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On Tuesday 04 December 2001 5:21 am, you wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Greg Lane" <gregory.lane@anu.edu.au> > To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > Cc: <jacks@sage-american.com> > 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. > You are slightly outdated here. Zoneedit now has a Python script that does it all for you. I have set mine up to check my IP address every 5 minutes. I have changed the script to even email me when the IP address changes. Regards from Kjell To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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