Our Hotspot gets a new IP every night, too.

We use a simple dyndns service linke "no-ip.com".

Simply enter the dyndns name in the clients.conf file
and every works well ...

If your Hotspot dont provide an dyndns client, use an
dsl router.


John Eckert


--On Donnerstag, 8. Januar 2004 20:28 +0000 john zurowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


We've setup a few hotspots all with static IPs and everything works perfectly.

However we've had requests regarding using dynamic IPs (ADSL lines) and
dynamic DNS.

Has anyone tackled this problem and have recommendations as to what could
be done.

My initial thoughts were to develop a server process on the machine
hosting the RADIUS server that could HUP freeradius and cause the conf
files to be re-loaded. The client would then prod this process to HUP
RADIUS server  when dynamic DNS is reset i.e. every time the client
reconnects to the ISP.

Its somewhat of a heavy handed approach but it would do as a short term
solution.

The only other approach I could think of was to modify freeradius by
retaining the domain name when loading clients.conf (in "int
read_clients_file(const char *file)" - maybe it already does and I've
just misread it) and effectively do a re-lookup of the Ip address for
domain-named cients. Again a lot of potential problems with this approach
i.e. DoS type attacks.



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