DYnamic DNS

[Kevin Darcy]

In a zone statement. See "allow-update" in doc/html/zone.html in the
"doc" tarball of the BIND distribution. "allow-update" takes an "address
match list", which is described in a different HTML document, and as I said
can include address and/or key references.


- Kevin

Tom Kondoff wrote:

> I'm curious about this also. Where do you specify "allow update"?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: kcd at daimlerchrysler.com [mailto:kcd at daimlerchrysler.com]
> Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 11:46 AM
> To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.isc.org
> Subject: Re: DYnamic DNS
>
> I'm not aware of any such HOWTO, but is it really that
> difficult? Configure zones with "allow-update" statements (using
> IP addresses, or, if you wish secured updates, key names, or a mix of
> both), then use "nsupdate" (with the -k option if you're using keys),
> some other standalone Dynamic Update utility, or an API, to make the
> updates.
>
> The only real gotcha that comes to mind is that you can't really mix
> Dynamic Update with "static" update mechanisms (i.e. modifications of
> the zone file, $INCLUDE or $GENERATE directives, etc.) for any given
> zone, since "named" will periodically overwrite the zonefile, destroying
> whatever changes you've made through means other than Dynamic Update. So
> it's pretty much an "all or nothing" switchover for each zone.
>
> - Kevin
>
> Dennis wrote:
>
> > Hi all...
> >
> > I'm sure this has been covered a million times before.
> > Is there a "Dynamic DNS" Howto ?
> >
> > Cheers
> > Dennis