On 13/04/07, Ilya Konstantinov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 4/13/07, Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is this the only way to do this? Is there a more elegant way I'm > missing? Yes, subscribe to yet another "dynamic IP name" service for the work IP. If your sysadmin at work is nice enough and you have an internal DNS server, you could pretty easily update it with a DNSSEC key and 'nsupdate'.
I am the system manager. I inherited the network a couple of months ago and going forward hope to transform it to an open network based on Linux, though there might be some parts (hopefully small island) which I won't be able to convert (e.g. almost everyone else will want to stick to Windows desktops, and to Exchange Server). (We currently use MS VPN, maybe once I get around to switch to OpenVPN I'll
> have more control over this and be able to dynamically assign host names > based on the user used to login to the VPN? Is this possible with MS VPN?) This is probably the basic Windows RAS Service. In this case, just go to Active Directory Users and Computers, select your user, go to the Dial-in tab and fill out the "Assign a static IP" input box.
This is one part of the system I don't have access to (only the CEO and CTO can touch the Active Directory). Is there a chance to get a DNS record dynamically updated to the right IP address instead of having to allocate a static IP address? Thanks, --Amos
