Re: Autodetection of IP address for nsupdate of A record

2011-04-24 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> Over the years I wondered why public dynamic DNS services reinvented > these wheels, with custom clients rather than using nsupdate. Now it > makes sense. How I wish they'd used a term other than "dynamic DNS" for their services, though... > While indeed, RFC 2136 had *me* cover

Re: Autodetection of IP address for nsupdate of A record

2011-04-24 Thread /dev/rob0
On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 10:32:39AM +0200, Jan-Piet Mens wrote: > > Now I want to do it right, but I don't see a way for nsupdate > > to do what httpd does: autodetection of client IP address for > > nsupdate of its A record. > > > > I can script something on the client end to get the IP address,

Re: Autodetection of IP address for nsupdate of A record

2011-04-24 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> Now I want to do it right, but I don't see a way for nsupdate to do > what httpd does: autodetection of client IP address for nsupdate of > its A record. > > I can script something on the client end to get the IP address, but > if possible I'd prefer autodetection, which would be OS- and > s