Accessing by hostname despite dynamic ips

[Matt Barclay]

You can also use dyndns.org and ddclient.  dyndns.org will give you a
domain name of the form:  yourhostname.dyndns.org.  ddclient is a perl
script that checks either your network interface (eth0, wlan0, etc) or
hits checkip.dyndns.org to figure out your IP.  It then updates
your DNS record on dydns.org with the new IP.  Very nice service, and its
free!

After setting up your accounts (one for each client) at dyndns.org, you
can "apt-get install ddclient" from your debian boxes.  I think you can
download RPMS directly from dydns.org.

Regards,
Matt

On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, marchuk wrote:

> From: marchuk <marchuk at ee.washington.edu>
> To: UW Linux Group <linux at u.washington.edu>
> Subject: Re: Accessing by hostname despite dynamic ips
> Reply-To: linux at u.washington.edu
> Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 10:56:33 -0800
>
> Look into dynamic dns in Bind.
>
> L. Walter wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've got several computers hooked up to a switch that assigns ips on a
> > first-come first-serve basis (rather than assigning the same ip to one
> > physical ethernet port on the switch, for instance).  I'd like to be able
> > to ssh (or whatever) into any of them based on their hostnames- what's the
> > most elegant (involves running the least services on the least number of
> > computers) way to do this?  The setup is one RH 8.0 desktop machine and
> > several mostly identical minimal (no X installed, no keyboards or
> > monitors) Debian boxes.
> >
> > I've done some network configuration where one computer was serving as a
> > firewall, doing dhcp, etc.- it was clearly in a dominant position in terms
> > of network geometry- but I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do for this
> > more 'egalitarian' setup.
> >
> > Thanks-
> >
> > Luke
> >
> >
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> >  Lucas Walter	  	lucasw at u.washington.edu
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