Dynamic DNS issue

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Wed Jan 5 02:43:24 UTC 2005


Daniel Rudy wrote:

>At about the time of 1/3/2005 4:56 PM, Kevin Darcy stated the following:
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>>Daniel Rudy wrote:
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>>>This is more of a how-to question than anything else.  Basically, I have
>>>two consumer xDSL lines at different locations that I want to be able to
>>>have the computers find each other.  The DSL lines are PPPoE with
>>>dynamicly assigned IP addresses.  The only thing that is constant is the
>>>hostnames which are registered with a dynamic DNS service and are
>>>available across the internet.
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>>>Now my question is how to I setup the servers at each location so that
>>>they update each other's DNS information?
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>>I guess I don't quite understand your question. If both boxes register 
>>themselves in DNS, and Machine A can resolve the IP address of Machine B 
>>by its name, and _vice_versa_, then why do you need to do anything more?
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>Because both locations have master DNS servers that administer the same
>domain name.  
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I'm not sure why you'd do that. What's wrong with making one of them 
master, and the other a slave?

- Kevin




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