<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On 8-Mar-06, at 8:41 AM, Rein Petersen wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">Hi Max, Hi Benjamin,<BR> <BR> Benjamin's idea of using a client to update an existing dynamic dns service is probably the easiest. You could delegate a subdomain of <A href="http://ilesansfil.org">ilesansfil.org</A> (how about "<A href="http://venues.ilesansfil.org">venues.ilesansfil.org</A>") to a remote dnydns service so your existing dns is not affected, then have a trigger on the db that uses the client to update the remote dyndns server on change of an ip address.<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>The DNS server handling ilesansfil.org already supports dynamic DNS entry updating ;-) No need for anything fancy to be done.</DIV><DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <BR> I had imagined something a little more elaborate - delegating a subdomain to your auth server and running a perl sockets service that answers only host lookups on port 53. Bothering with the entire BIND DNS spec would be unecessary (don't need reverse or MX queries). DNS speaks binary on the wire so it is still a little elaborate but not impossible (I've worked on a resolver for a mail server called Lumisoft Mail).<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>Entirely doable (done it before as well), but a bit overkill :-)</DIV><DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <BR> I think Benjamin's plan may be easier to implement.<BR> <BR> Rein<BR><BR><DIV><SPAN class="gmail_quote">On 3/8/06, <B class="gmail_sendername">Benjamin Crulli</B> <<A href="mailto:lostocean@gmail.com">lostocean@gmail.com</A>> wrote:</SPAN><BLOCKQUOTE class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> These are the three dyndns GNU/Linux softwares i know about.<BR><a href="<A href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=65917">http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=65917</A>">updatedd</a> <BR><a href="<A href="http://www.funtaff.com/software/addns.pl">http://www.funtaff.com/software/addns.pl</A>">Addns.pl</a><BR><a href="<A href="http://ipcheck.sourceforge.net/">http://ipcheck.sourceforge.net/ </A>">ipcheck.py</a><BR><BR>On 3/8/06, Max Horváth <<A href="mailto:max.horvath@maxspot.de">max.horvath@maxspot.de</A>> wrote:<BR>> This feature would be nice ... but I think we won't be able to do it by just <BR>> extending the auth server.<BR>><BR>> In fact I still don't know which software exists for linux to provide a<BR>> DynDNS service :( ...<BR>><BR>> Did you already do some research?<BR>><BR>> Cheers, Max! <BR>><BR>><BR>> Am 08.03.2006 um 05:11 schrieb Rein Petersen:<BR>><BR>> Hi All,<BR>><BR>> Considering that Wifidog clients heartbeat frequently to the auth server, I<BR>> was wondering if anyone had considered rolling Dynamic DNS service into <BR>> Wifidog auth server.<BR>><BR>> Then you could resolve dynamic ip addresses to names like<BR>> <A href="http://boodhabar.ilesansfil.org">boodhabar.ilesansfil.org</A><BR>><BR>> This might be helpful for venues that want to run their own services or <BR>> have a webcam installed.<BR>><BR>> Just a crazy idea but I think it would be cool.<BR>><BR>> Rein<BR>><BR>> _______________________________________________<BR>> WiFiDog mailing list<BR>> <A href="mailto:WiFiDog@listes.ilesansfil.org">WiFiDog@listes.ilesansfil.org</A><BR>> <A href="http://listes.ilesansfil.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wifidog">http://listes.ilesansfil.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wifidog </A><BR>><BR>> _______________________________________________<BR>> WiFiDog mailing list<BR>> <A href="mailto:WiFiDog@listes.ilesansfil.org">WiFiDog@listes.ilesansfil.org</A><BR>> <A href="http://listes.ilesansfil.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wifidog"> http://listes.ilesansfil.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wifidog</A><BR>><BR>><BR>><BR><BR><BR>--<BR>Ben Crulli<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>WiFiDog mailing list<BR><A href="mailto:WiFiDog@listes.ilesansfil.org"> WiFiDog@listes.ilesansfil.org</A><BR><A href="http://listes.ilesansfil.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wifidog">http://listes.ilesansfil.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wifidog</A><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><BR clear="all"><BR> -- <BR>Rein Petersen MCP MCP+I MCSE MCDBA MCAD<BR>Software Engineer<DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">WiFiDog mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:WiFiDog@listes.ilesansfil.org">WiFiDog@listes.ilesansfil.org</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://listes.ilesansfil.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wifidog">http://listes.ilesansfil.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wifidog</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>