[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > John writes: > > Write a script to go in ip-up.d that does something like: > > Yes, I could do this, but I don't need to: my isp doesn't use 'dynamic > dns'. > > My interest is in helping new users whose isp's won't tell them the > nameserver ip's because they use dynamic dns. Someone reminded me that > pppd is able to provide dynamic dns to Windows clients, so I can figure it > out from the source. > > If I can't figure out how to provide a dynamic dns 'client' I can think of > several workarounds.
I suspect I'm not getting everything on the list then, as I had no idea of the context. Nevertheless, I use a setup like I described before on my home machine as the DNS at my ISP is so unreliable (runs on NT!), and their secondary server moves around a lot. . I pull the SOA from a biggish nameserver (identified by IP address), and then use that to recursively dig till I find the name server that knows what my dial-in line is called. I then reset my hostname and mail configs. I only need to know 1 IP (that of ns1.telstra.net - 139.130.4.5 ) and the domain-name of my ISP. John F.
