Re: [Leaf-user] dhcp2dns

>(I deal with my ISP changing my IP address, and with the fact that >they don't put it into DNS themselves, by running ez-ipupd.lrp and >using it to connect with one of the dyndns services out there. It >works great, and I *think* it'd work for frequently changed leases, >but I haven't tested it.

Re: [Leaf-user] dhcp2dns

> Does this "solve" the problem of the ISP who > changes your lease every couple of hours ? It doesn't address that problem. It's meant for routers that are serving dhcp leases to internal clients, and to allow those clients to address each other by name irrespective of the IP addresses

Re: [Leaf-user] dhcp2dns

'Scuse my ignorance, but: Does this "solve" the problem of the ISP who changes your lease every couple of hours ? If so, since this a fairly simple script which will run in milliseconds, and most of it only if the lease has changed, any harm in running it once per minute? __

Re: [Leaf-user] dhcp2dns

Hee -- ever read Neal Stephenson's "In the Beginning was the Command Line"? There's a chapter call the Noosphere, in which he postulates that proprietary software vendors exist in a very very thin shell between what's conceivable but doesn't exist yet (think air) and what's so damn common that it'

[Leaf-user] dhcp2dns

With a bit of help from Michael D. Schleif I've created a package for my Dachsetein routers that puts local hostnames into dns as they're assigned leases. It's working for me, so I'm posting it in case it'll help someone else -- or in case I've done something stupid. :-)