Dynamic DNS and Slave Servers

[Joseph S D Yao]

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:41:04PM -0400, Kevin Darcy wrote:
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> Surely you mean sub*zone* (?)
...


Yes, Kevin.  Thank you.


...
> It's not always possible to arrange one's namespace between static and
> dynamic, oftentimes there are other conventions and taxonomies which
> dictate that "static" data and "dynamic" data must co-exist in the same
> (sub)domain. This is when tools like nsupdate and the Dynamic Update
> capabilities of the Net::DNS Perl module come in handy -- to allow
> maintenance of "static" data in zones which also contain truly "dynamic"
> data, maintained by a DHCP server and/or self-registering Wintel clients
> and/or some other infrastructure component(s).
...


I should have made it clear that I was speaking of the ideal.  The real
often has to deviate from the ideal because of other constraints.

Ummm ... why Wintel specifically?  There are many non-MS software
components that can do this, and on many non-Intel processors.


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