Javier Marcon Servilink Web Hosting wrote: > I thought that iptables resolved the dns and cached the result, so when > cahe expires it would update the ip in next dns query, but I was wrong. > To handle this I should make a cron script that runs periodically > (every 30 secconds for example) making a dns query and updating the > host's ip on vuurmuur with: > > vuurmuur_script --modify --host xxx.world.inet --variable IPADDRESS --set > $NEW_IP > vuurmuur_script --reload
Keep in mind that some domain names resolve to multiple ipaddresses. This requires some extra care in a solution like this. Cheers, Victor ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Vuurmuur-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vuurmuur-users
