On Aug 15, 2010, at 6:37 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <[email protected]>, Hal Vaughan wrote: >> I've been reading the man pages for dhclient, but I'm stuck with one key >> question I've missed. >> >> I have an exit script set up to notify me of the IP address of a particular >> system (on a LAN) whenever the IP address changes. >> >> I know whenever dhclient runs, it runs the exit scripts. The one issue I'm >> not clear of is whether the exit scripts will be run any time the IP >> address changes, like when a lease expires. I know it'll run at reboot or >> if networking is restarted, but will the exit scripts be run when the IP >> address is changed by the DHCP? If it's not, is there any program that >> runs under those conditions? > > I can't answer the specific question, but I knows that there are DynDNS > clients in Debian that are capable of notifying a remote system whenever the > local system's IP changes. One of these clients should be able to "speak" a > "dialect" you can process.
I had always thought those were for external IP addresses, not for inside a LAN. I'll check on that. Thanks! Hal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
