Dynamic DNS

[Barry Margolin]

In article <eje5t3$i2r$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 Kevin Darcy <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com> wrote:

> Barry Margolin wrote:
> > In article <ejdoru$29r1$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
> >  Kevin Darcy <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com> wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> voipfc wrote:
> >>     
> >>> I want to set up Dynamic DNS  on a DNS server.
> >>>
> >>> Regardless of which server I use is it mainly the setting of the TTL to
> >>> a low figure - 60s that configures that dns name as a dynamic one?
> >>>
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >> "Dynamic DNS" can mean a wide variety of things that people want it to 
> >> mean. If having a low TTL means, to you, that a given record is Dynamic 
> >> DNS, then you're perfectly welcome to that opinion.
> >>
> >> It might be more productive, however, if you describe what your 
> >> requirements are, and then we can weigh in on whether we think Dynamic 
> >> DNS, as _we_ define it, meets those requirements or not.
> >>     
> >
> > >From the way he phrases the question, it seems pretty obvious to me that 
> > he means something like what dyndns.org does.
> >
> >   
> Hmmm... How do you get that from "I want to set up Dynamic DNS on a DNS 
> server"? He could just as easily mean that he wants his DHCP server to 
> dynamically update his DNS server...

I get it from his mention of low TTL -- that implies that the important 
feature is that changes propagate quickly.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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