Re: [CentOS] Death of dyndns

2014-04-15 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting Timothy Murphy : > I'm running two servers, one with a fixed IP address > and the other with a dynamic address. > > This is probably a very ignorant question, > but what does dyndns do that I could not do myself? In principle, nothing. But you aren't their use case. At wikipedia's page

Re: [CentOS] Death of dyndns

2014-04-14 Thread Stephen Harris
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 01:42:07PM +, David G. Miller wrote: > Interesting. I had to have my ISP add a C record to their DNS for my fixed > IP address before most of my e-mails were accepted. I recently also had to > add an SPF (sender policy framework) record on my DNS to get my e-mails > ac

Re: [CentOS] Death of dyndns

2014-04-14 Thread David G . Miller
Stephen Harris writes: > > On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 02:06:42PM +, David G. Miller wrote: > > > Be aware that the actual "owner" of the dynamic IP address is still > > authoritative for reverse look ups. This means that some uses of a system > > with a dynamic IP address are problematic (e.g

Re: [CentOS] Death of dyndns

2014-04-13 Thread Anthony K
On 14/04/14 14:18, Keith Keller wrote: > ...well, unless they get to charge you by the MB/GB. Last I heard that > was more common outside the US. Yup, I'm in Australia and here they have a quota that counts up for both downloads and uploads. We are actually getting DDoS'd at the office and the

Re: [CentOS] Death of dyndns

2014-04-13 Thread Keith Keller
On 2014-04-14, Anthony K wrote: > > Be aware of DND DDoS Amplification attack *[0]* if you are running this > DNS at home as it can quickly deplete your bandwidth (if your ISP gives > you quotas per month). I use the following *[1]* to help stop these > queries. However, since I'm dropping the

Re: [CentOS] Death of dyndns

2014-04-13 Thread Anthony K
Timothy Murphy wrote: > But would this "home" DNS server provide records accessible to others? Be aware of DND DDoS Amplification attack *[0]* if you are running this DNS at home as it can quickly deplete your bandwidth (if your ISP gives you quotas per month). I use the following *[1]* to help

Re: [CentOS] Death of dyndns

2014-04-13 Thread KevinO
On 04/13/2014 03:16 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > But would this "home" DNS server provide records accessible to others? > If in fact it is straightforward surely it must be set out > explicitly somewhere? > Yes. But, you have to set the name server entry with your domain registration. Requests for

Re: [CentOS] Death of dyndns

2014-04-13 Thread Stephen Harris
On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 02:06:42PM +, David G. Miller wrote: > Be aware that the actual "owner" of the dynamic IP address is still > authoritative for reverse look ups. This means that some uses of a system > with a dynamic IP address are problematic (e.g., mail server) since the > reverse lo

Re: [CentOS] Death of dyndns

2014-04-13 Thread David G . Miller
Timothy Murphy writes: > > KevinO wrote: > > >> I would like the server with a dynamic IP address > >> to be accessible through a fixed name. > >> > > Setup an authoritative DNS server on the server that has a fixed IP > > address to host records for the site(s) on the server that has a dynami

Re: [CentOS] Death of dyndns

2014-04-13 Thread Armin Fisslthaler
If you are interested in DIY you could just run your own dns server (refer to [0]) on your server (the one with the static ip address) and implement dyndns with your own domain. [0] http://doc.powerdns.com/html/rfc2136-howto.html#rfc2136-howto-powerdns Regards, Armin Fisslthaler signature.a

Re: [CentOS] Death of dyndns

2014-04-13 Thread Timothy Murphy
KevinO wrote: >> I would like the server with a dynamic IP address >> to be accessible through a fixed name. >> > Setup an authoritative DNS server on the server that has a fixed IP > address to host records for the site(s) on the server that has a dynamic > IP address. > > Create a local scheme

Re: [CentOS] Death of dyndns

2014-04-12 Thread KevinO
On 04/12/2014 01:19 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I would like the server with a dynamic IP address > to be accessible through a fixed name. > Setup an authoritative DNS server on the server that has a fixed IP address to host records for the site(s) on the server that has a dynamic IP address. Cre

Re: [CentOS] Death of dyndns

2014-04-12 Thread Timothy Murphy
Always Learning wrote: >> I'm running two servers, one with a fixed IP address >> and the other with a dynamic address. >> >> This is probably a very ignorant question, >> but what does dyndns do that I could not do myself? > > But what would you like to do, but can not do, at this present time

Re: [CentOS] Death of dyndns

2014-04-12 Thread Florian La Roche
On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 03:38:32PM +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I'm running two servers, one with a fixed IP address > and the other with a dynamic address. > > This is probably a very ignorant question, > but what does dyndns do that I could not do myself? As a replacement http://www.duckdns.o

Re: [CentOS] Death of dyndns

2014-04-12 Thread Always Learning
On Sat, 2014-04-12 at 15:38 +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I'm running two servers, one with a fixed IP address > and the other with a dynamic address. > > This is probably a very ignorant question, > but what does dyndns do that I could not do myself? But what would you like to do, but can not

[CentOS] Death of dyndns

2014-04-12 Thread Timothy Murphy
I'm running two servers, one with a fixed IP address and the other with a dynamic address. This is probably a very ignorant question, but what does dyndns do that I could not do myself? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland