[olug] New COX managed network bad for Linux

[Phil Brutsche]

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 01:53:38 -0600
> Phil Brutsche <phil at giedi.obix.com> wrote:
>
> > http://clients.dyndns.org/
>
> Thanks, I'll try them out. I must have been looking in the wrong place, or
> thought they only worked with dyndns.org's domain updating....

Those clients only work with dyndns.org.  There just happens to be a large
number of clients for "the big 3" operating systems (Windows,
Linux/*BSD/*nix, MacOS) there.

> How does one run a dynamic DNS Server?  Does Bind have the ability?

Yes

> what else would?

Many things.

The DNS server in Win2k can accept updates using their own protocol (the
DNSSEC standardization process wasn't moving fast enough for 'em or
something like that); BIND can accept updates from DHCP servers (ie ISC
DHCP v3), or even manually (check out 'man nsupdate' some time) using a
standardized protocol. The NT4 DNS server does it via WINS.

DynDNS.org probably does it by having clients check in via a web site and
send the username, password, and the new IP number.  The web site then
updates the DNS entries with something like nsupdate (or at least I would
:).

-- 

Phil


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