The IP changes every 24 hours. hmm.. If the two hosts were in the same domain, it shouldn't make a difference (except for secondary servers), right?
My interest in doing this is that my ISP only charges additional baudwidth for static IPs... so, I could have a large site on a dynamic IP and a small DNS and mail server on the dynamic. -Paul On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, Tod Detre wrote: > How dynamic is the ip? What I'm getting at is that it takes time to have a > hostname propogate through the internet (sometimes up to a week). So if you > get > this working, and if you're changing ip's every day then some computers on > the other side of the world may still point to an ip that has already changed > 5-7 times already. > > On Sun, Jul 05, 1998 at 06:42:07PM -0400, Paul Miller wrote: > > On Sun, 5 Jul 1998, George Bonser wrote: > > > > > On Sun, 5 Jul 1998, Paul Miller wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > I have 1 static IP and I'm thinking about getting an additional dynamic > > > > IP. I'm not exactly sure on how DHCP works, but is there a way to have > > > > the my DNS server (on static IP) updated when the dynamic IP changes? > > > > > > > > THanks > > > > -Paul > > > > > > If you are wanting the host assigned by DHCP to be reachable from the > > > internet, yeah, you will need something to update your zone file and > > > restart DNS. There are several DYNDNS packages around, sign up for the > > > systalk mailing list at ml.org and make an inquiry there. > > > > Yeah. hmm.. how will the dynamic computer know when its IP changes? Is > > it possible to run a script to notify the name server? > > > > Thanks, > > -Paul > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > -- > Tod Detre |"If the women don't find you handsome, they should at > | least find you handy." -Red Green > |"It is TOD not TODD! Do you see God spelling his name > | Godd?" -Me > -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
