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From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] <OT> bind: "dynamic-IP to FQDN" resolving for windows-clients howto?
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 20:07:28
Message-Id: CAEH5T2Pk2eeCbtN=XRoDuDob_1aBGzwpqXQrQBnYf7yN-EoAhw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] bind: "dynamic-IP to FQDN" resolving for windows-clients howto? by Jarry
1 On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Jarry <mr.jarry@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 > I would like to offer to some friends similar service
4 > as i.e. dyndns.org does: FQDN for their dynamic IP.
5 > But I have no idea how to set-up my bind for this task.
6 > And what is even worse, they are mostly running Windows.
7 >
8 > IIRC, dyndns.org (and similar services) offer some
9 > kind of end-user application which takes care of this.
10 > But I think it should be possible with nsupdate too.
11 > So I downloaded bind4windows, extracted, and tried
12 > to run nsupdate, but it complains about "side-by-side
13 > configuration incorrect, application failed to start".
14 >
15 > So is there some way to accomplish this task?
16
17 I've never done it, and no idea about Windows-specifics, but maybe
18 this tutorial will contain some answers:
19 http://linux.yyz.us/nsupdate/