dynamic dns updates

[Cricket Liu]

> I think I can use the above mentioned documents to setup BIND to 
> allow dynamic 
> updates, but is there an easy way to actually send the updates to 
> my DNS server? 
>   I've seen some Perl script examples I think but before I delve 
> into it I 
> figured I'd ask if there was a simple way (I'm _not_ an advanced 
> Linux user here 
> though I am certainly in the intermediate category)

Michael Fuhr's Net::DNS is probably the easiest way, if you're
comfortable with Perl.  See http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/perldns/.
Or you can use nsupdate, part of the BIND distribution.

cricket

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