From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 15 09:10:46 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 D668F16A4B3 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:10:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from catseye.mine.nu (d154-5-164-0.bchsia.telus.net [154.5.164.0]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0FF4F43F75 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:10:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from catseye@catseye.mine.nu) Received: (qmail 2688 invoked by uid 1001); 15 Oct 2003 16:12:48 -0000 Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:12:48 -0700 From: Chris Pressey To: "J. Seth Henry" Message-Id: <20031015091248.594406c8.cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> In-Reply-To: <1066232388.61418.9.camel@alexandria> References: <1066232388.61418.9.camel@alexandria> Organization: Cat's Eye Technologies X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.6 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.9) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: isc-dhcp & dyndns 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: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 16:10:46 -0000 On 15 Oct 2003 11:39:49 -0400 "J. Seth Henry" wrote: > Hello, > I (finally) have my FBSD 4.8-REL internet gateway running, and have > replaced my old Netgear router with the new machine. Everything works > except for dynamic DNS updates. In fact, my Cisco ATA actually works > BETTER through the new router :) > > I have found several dynDNS updater programs, but they all seem to get > the new IP info from a hardware router's web interface (which I no > longer have). Given that the router is now a *nix box, it would seem > reasonable that this could be simplified. However, I noted on the > dynDNS.org website that they discourage users from simply running > scripts from the dhcp exit script. > > How is everyone else updating their dynamic DNS entries from a FreeBSD > based gateway router? Hi Seth, I use ipcheck.py. It checks the output of 'ifconfig' to see if the public IP address has changed. I run it periodically from a cron script. It was a little painful to set up (entirely my own fault), but now that it's working it's essentially hassle-free. It handles both Dynamic DNS and Static DNS. Last I checked it was listed on www.dyndns.org and had a fairly high user-satisfaction score. -Chris