On 19/02/2019 17:36, Dan Ritter wrote: > tony wrote: >> On 19/02/2019 16:10, Greg Wooledge wrote: >>> On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 11:11:29AM +0100, tony wrote: >>>> Debian 9. I need to read my IPv6 address into a python script. >>> >>> Why? >>> >>> <https://mywiki.wooledge.org/IpAddress> may offer some insight. >>> >> >> Well, I'm sure you don't really want to know, and I don't think your >> blog covers my use case. Correct me if I'm wrong on either count. >> >> I have a network of IoTs consisting of 5 (I think) Paspberry Pis, >> monitoring various things, and periodically sending the data to my VPS. >> I need access to these hosts to manage them. >> >> The network supplier is Orange France (spit!) who supply a dynamic DNS >> on both IPv4 and IPv6. I need to access any of them. For some years, I >> have been using NAT over IPv4 with some success. I simply collect the >> router's address from the server using curl, compare it with the current >> DNS setting, and run nsupdate if different. >> >> Now, Orange (spit!) have recently discovered. IPv6, which makes >> management much easier, so I'm in the process of changing over to that >> protocol. Sadly the prefix is dynamic; ${deity} knows why. Each host >> address is set up from router advertisement, so I figure I only need to >> catch the host's current address, and set up the DNS accordingly. I'm >> successfully doing that manually, but, of course, that's not very >> satisfactory. > > That sounds like a job for a dynamic dns client. > > existing Debian packages: > > ddclient (multiple backend services supported) > ddupdate (also supports multiple services, more plugin-oriented) > dyfi (Finnish users only) > dyndns (multiple services) > ez-ipupdate (multiple services) > ipcheck (dyndns protocol specific, but many services use it) > isc-dhcp-client-ddns (adds dynamic dns to DHCP) > > Don't reinvent the wheel, when it looks like it already has > seven versions already. > > -dsr- >
Thanks, I'll take a look. Cheers, Tony
