Re: [LUG] Anybody tried the FREESCO router

[Jon Still <jon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Cough - urm Dynamic DNS - well I use nsupdate to update my local
> DNS manually - this is the kind of sick discipline only regulars
> in comp.protocols.dns.bind would inflict on themselves.

I took the middle road when developing dynamic DNS for my users.  The 
DDNS 'server' is a PHP script which accepts an IP address.  It uses 
Basic Auth (over SSL) to authenticate the users.  The PHP script (which 
can also be used from a browser to manually change things) calls 
nsupdate and uses BIND's key mechanism to authenticate this (although to 
be honest I trust local users to not screw things up for everyone as 
they are paying for this server).

The client is 2 lines of shell scripting that uses ifconfig, sed and awk 
to retrieve the IP address and wget to update the server :)  These 2 
lines of course go in /etc/ppp/ip-up :)

J.

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