DDNS front-ends

[Kevin Darcy]

Well, using DDNS to manage DNS is a fairly new concept, I don't know that
there are a lot of implementations out there. Even the commercial DNS
management tools (NetID, QIP, the DNS subsystem of Win2K) appear to use a
separate database rather than manipulating the DNS database directly via
DDNS.

In my case, I'm just using the CGI and DNS-query capabilities of Perl
wrapped around the "nsupdate" utility. Not exactly rocket science...

(I may eventually ditch nsupdate altogether in favor of the DNS-update
capabilities of the Net::DNS Perl module just as soon as a) it supports
TSIG-authentication, and b) I find out why there's a big red flag in the .pm
file warning that the update functions are not for production use).


- Kevin

Kenneth Porter wrote:

> On Thu, 21 Dec 2000 17:40:47 -0500, Kevin Darcy wrote:
>
> >Unfortunately, all of my stuff was written on DaimlerChrysler time, so
> >technically it's their intellectual property. But I could give you some
> >pointers if you want to create something similar. If it's not of general
> >interest, we should probably take that discussion off-line.
>
> No, I'd like to hear more about it, and about front-end programs for
> managing DDNS in general.
>
> Ken
> mailto:shiva at well.com
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