Re: Help me setup dynamic DNS server address.

1998-10-24 Thread john
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > John writes: > > Write a script to go in ip-up.d that does something like: > > Yes, I could do this, but I don't need to: my isp doesn't use 'dynamic > dns'. > > My interest is in helping new users whose isp's won't tell them the > nameserver ip's because the

Re: Help me setup dynamic DNS server address.

1998-10-23 Thread john
John writes: > Write a script to go in ip-up.d that does something like: Yes, I could do this, but I don't need to: my isp doesn't use 'dynamic dns'. My interest is in helping new users whose isp's won't tell them the nameserver ip's because they use dynamic dns. Someone reminded me that pppd

Re: Help me setup dynamic DNS server address.

1998-10-22 Thread john
I assume you run bind. Write a script to go in ip-up.d that does something like: 1) dig @theispdomain | grep "IN NS" > afile 2) extract the IPs of the servers and sed them into the forwarder line in named.conf 3) ndc restart in ip-down.d you'll want to restore the named.conf to something 'norm

Re: Help me setup dynamic DNS server address.

1998-10-21 Thread Lee Bradshaw
On Mon, Oct 19, 1998 at 12:14:07PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Noam Gordon writes: Umm, that should be "> Lee Bradshaw writes:" > > They probably don't really _change_ the nameserver addresses > > dynamically. So add these servers to your /etc/resolv.conf file and > > things should work. >

Re: Help me setup dynamic DNS server address.

1998-10-19 Thread john
Noam Gordon writes: > They probably don't really _change_ the nameserver addresses > dynamically. So add these servers to your /etc/resolv.conf file and > things should work. Yes, but I would still like to support this 'dynamic' assignment of nameservers transparently. I could call nslookup from

Re: Help me setup dynamic DNS server address.

1998-10-19 Thread Lee Bradshaw
On Sun, Oct 18, 1998 at 06:11:25PM +0200, Noam Gordon wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I am a Linux newbie. I have installed Debian 2.0 successfully. I would like > to set up ISDN dial-up to my ISP. > My ISP asigns me an IP address AS WELL AS DNS server address , dynamically > (In my win95 setup, I di

Help me setup dynamic DNS server address.

1998-10-18 Thread Noam Gordon
Hello everyone, I am a Linux newbie. I have installed Debian 2.0 successfully. I would like to set up ISDN dial-up to my ISP. My ISP asigns me an IP address AS WELL AS DNS server address , dynamically (In my win95 setup, I didn't need to input any info at all). I read in the Linux tutorial that wh