How to Configure Dynamic DNS

abhishek124 · 08-15-2005, 07:50 AM

I want to configure Dynamic DNS, so that i dont need to make static entry in localhost.zone and named.local. I checked my DHCP settings also. Can anyone help

Half_Elf · 08-15-2005, 08:19 AM

not quite sure what you want to do, but if you just want a dynamic "hostname" (like that your hostname is updated each time your ip change, if you have a dynamic ip connection) the easiest would be to take an account on some dyndns service. Most of them are free and quite reliable. Take a look at noip.com or dyndns.org, as example.

abhishek124 · 08-17-2005, 04:25 AM

Well My setup is
1 NIS server, I DHCP/DNS server , 500 Clients
I dont want to add a DNS entry in each clients host file nor I want to make static entry in DNS files. What I am looking at is each time a user requests an IP address, He should also get name resolution and automatically update DNS Files (Localhost.zone, named.local )

Half_Elf · 08-17-2005, 06:58 AM

Ok, it wasn't clear in the first post...

I'm not an expert in this, but I think this link might help you :
http://ops.ietf.org/dns/dynupd/secure-ddns-howto.html

You could also find some good thread about it searching this forum I remember seeing this question asked often.

jayakrishnan · 08-17-2005, 09:04 AM

This has been asked often, a google will help u in this, there are lotsof howtos around