is DDNS for me?

[Kevin Darcy]

Maximo Ramos wrote:

> Hi!!
>
> On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 02:58:50PM -0400, Adam Lang wrote:
> >
> > So I'm guessing this is the situation.
> >
> > You have a DNS server in Canada for "domain.com".  Your friend in Finland
> > has a dial up account to the internet and his IP address changes everytime.
> > You have an entry on your DNS for his computer, but you want the DNS record
> > to change IP Address automatically everytime your friend in Finland gets a
> > new IP address, right?
>
> YES!! BINGO!! but he actually has cable-modem :)
>
> > >From what I've read, you can do that.  The DNS server in Canada would have
> > to be configured for DDNS and then your friend in Finland would have to have
> > a local program that he would run that would update the DNS.
>
> YES!! but something is not clear, what "local program" is that? is
> that in the bind source? in other place? for what operating systems is
> it available?

You could use the "nsupdate" utility for this. It's part of the
BIND distribution.


- Kevin