use a domain in an A record?
Cricket Liu
cricket at menandmice.com
Wed Nov 7 23:25:16 UTC 2001
> good answers. here's the more specific question:
>
> ok, how can I configure my zone when i'm using DHCP? I have a
> domain that
> resolves resolves through my ISP but want to use my own domain.
> Currently I have:
>
> breakfast.ca IN A 24.102.231.139
>
> but that IP will change constantly when I switch to DHCP
> (required now by my
> ISP). cr428903-b.rchrd1.on.wave.home.com will always resolve to
> my IP and I
> have that listed as my nameserver in my Registrar. This way, all
> loookups for
> breakfast.ca will get forwarded to my comupter. However I have a
> mail server,
> ftp etc. set up on mail. ftp. etc... that I want to resolve.
>
> Other than setting my timeouts on the zone file to 0 and having a
> script change
> the zone file to reflect my new IP each time it changes (not sure
> how often it
> will end up changing -- might depend on how often I reboot my
> computer) and
> re-running named.... any way i can get this to work?
That's one way. You could also use dynamic update to change
the address breakfast.ca points to. That wouldn't require
reloading the name server.
cricket
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