Re: solution for a quick/robust/secure broadcast issue

2014-10-14 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2014-10-14 at 14:05 +1030, Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 13 October 2014, Patrick O'Callaghan sent: > > Isn't that pretty much what Avahi does? Why reinvent the wheel? > > Does Avahi even do anything on a system which has already been set up by > DCHP? My understanding of this is pr

Re: solution for a quick/robust/secure broadcast issue

2014-10-13 Thread Ed Greshko
On 10/14/14 12:19, bruce wrote: > so essentially, > > the process would have each system in the sub net, report it's > address/name to the external dyndns service, where it would be > managed/returned as a subname, which would then populate the > local/internal resolv.conf (or whatever is required)

Re: solution for a quick/robust/secure broadcast issue

2014-10-13 Thread bruce
so essentially, the process would have each system in the sub net, report it's address/name to the external dyndns service, where it would be managed/returned as a subname, which would then populate the local/internal resolv.conf (or whatever is required) to allow the local services/users of the s

Re: solution for a quick/robust/secure broadcast issue

2014-10-13 Thread Ed Greshko
On 10/14/14 11:39, Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 14 October 2014, Ed Greshko sent: >> It may be easier for him to use a Dynamic DNS service, such as >> http://www.dnsdynamic.org/, and ddclient on the Fedora side. > Wouldn't that just return the public facing address of the network, > rather

Re: solution for a quick/robust/secure broadcast issue

2014-10-13 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 14 October 2014, Ed Greshko sent: > It may be easier for him to use a Dynamic DNS service, such as > http://www.dnsdynamic.org/, and ddclient on the Fedora side. Wouldn't that just return the public facing address of the network, rather than the individual client addresses?

Re: solution for a quick/robust/secure broadcast issue

2014-10-13 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 13 October 2014, bruce sent: > any step by steps you can point me to. > > ie, boxA with ipA is running mysql and has name boxA > > the dhcp of boxA might change day to day > > user on boxB wants to be able to get ip of boxA Does your unmanageable DHCP server do name reso

Re: solution for a quick/robust/secure broadcast issue

2014-10-13 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 13 October 2014, Patrick O'Callaghan sent: > Isn't that pretty much what Avahi does? Why reinvent the wheel? Does Avahi even do anything on a system which has already been set up by DCHP? -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:3

Re: solution for a quick/robust/secure broadcast issue

2014-10-13 Thread Ed Greshko
On 10/14/14 06:50, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2014-10-13 at 13:26 -0400, bruce wrote: >> Hi. >> >> For a test network, internal 192.168..x subnet, I've got some boxes >> that are connected to a dhcp server that I have no control of. >> >> I'm looking to test/play with some services on the

Re: solution for a quick/robust/secure broadcast issue

2014-10-13 Thread bruce
Hey patrick. couldn't really find any good pointers on this. any step by steps you can point me to. ie, boxA with ipA is running mysql and has name boxA the dhcp of boxA might change day to day user on boxB wants to be able to get ip of boxA how can avahi be used in this case? thanks On Mo

Re: solution for a quick/robust/secure broadcast issue

2014-10-13 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2014-10-13 at 13:26 -0400, bruce wrote: > Hi. > > For a test network, internal 192.168..x subnet, I've got some boxes > that are connected to a dhcp server that I have no control of. > > I'm looking to test/play with some services on the different boxes, > but would like to have other box

solution for a quick/robust/secure broadcast issue

2014-10-13 Thread bruce
Hi. For a test network, internal 192.168..x subnet, I've got some boxes that are connected to a dhcp server that I have no control of. I'm looking to test/play with some services on the different boxes, but would like to have other boxes be able to reference the boxes running the services. My iss