Re: hmm... an idea

1998-07-08 Thread George Bonser
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 want

Re: hmm... an idea

1998-07-07 Thread Paul Miller
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 s

Re: hmm... an idea

1998-07-06 Thread Tod Detre
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 alread

Re: hmm... an idea

1998-07-06 Thread Paul Miller
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 dy

Re: hmm... an idea

1998-07-06 Thread dreamwvr
although i have not implemented it myself it is stock with the latest version of dns and bind for unix. regards, [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 05:52 AM 7/5/98 -0400, 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,

Re: hmm... an idea

1998-07-06 Thread Glynn Clements
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? BIND 8.* introduces a dynamic update feature, which allow

RE: hmm... an idea

1998-07-06 Thread Russell Berry
have two sets of DNS files, named blah.org, and blah.dhcp, create links to them with the real names, (named.hosts -> named.hosts.org). have your call dhcp with a script that removes the links, and links them to the appropriate files and restarts named (ndc restart). That's one way I suppose... -