Questions tagged [dynamic-dns]
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Understanding ipsec with NAT and dynamic IP's
I'm using OpenSWAN to set up a net-to-net VPN tunnel. I have succeeded in configuring a test scenario as follows:
About test and test2:
they are Ubuntu 12.04 virtual machines created using ubuntu-vm-builder
they use bridged networking to the…

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Disabling dynamic DNS updates with Group Policy
I am administering a system which for reasons beyond my control have a disjoint DNS namespace. I don't like it, but that's how it is, and I have no way of changing this. The reason is that the servers need to co-exist with a pre-existing DNS…

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Microsoft DHCP server and Unix BIND dynamic DNS
Is there any way to make Microsoft DHCP server to securely dynamically update A and PTR records in Unix Bind DNS zone?
Microsoft supports secure update using username/password authentication. Bind9 support secure update using keys. But I couldn't…

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Windows Azure Virtual Machine with GoDaddy Custom Domains
I asked this question (on SO by accident):
I am having problems setting up a custom domain (purchased on GoDaddy.com) with an Azure virtual machine (on which I plan on running multiple websites.) I've setup some Endpoints (80 for Http and 443 for…

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Opensource alternative of DynDNS?
In the network where I work we have frequent situations where people setup a virtual to try something new out and want to tell others (within the same network) about their experiments.
For this kind of situation I would like to introduce an…

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Inconsistent dynamic DNS update behavior
After having upgraded a Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Domain to Server 2008, and upgraded client PCs from Windows XP to Windows 7, I'm seeing inconsistent dynamic DNS update behaviour.
Two domain controllers also have a DHCP and DNS role.…

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Windows Server 2008 - Zone Scavenging - "This zone can be scavenged after"
I have set up DNS scavenging on our Windows Server 08 R2 boxes as we had records in there that were duplicated and some dating back to 2004!
I set the no-refresh and refresh-after intervals both to 3 days, zone scavenging is enabled on each zone and…

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Dynamic DNS service for low qps but high deployment count
I deploy cellular modems that currently have sims with static ip addresses. For various reasons, we may move to providing sims without static ips.
The cellular modem supports DDNS (bluetree modem).
Since we will have a very low query per second rate…

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Named dynamic update simulation
I'd like to manually change some entries in a Bind server via the dynamic update. I couldn't find any specific tool to do that however. Is there any cli application where I can specify the record to add/remove and send the specific request?

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What is the practical difference between krb5-self and krb5-subdomain in BIND9 update-policy statement?
What is the practical difference between krb5-self and krb5-subdomain policies in BIND9 on update-policy statement while dealing with dynamic DNS updates on zones?
From the BIND9 documentation it states the following:
krb5-self: This rule takes a…

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using (windows) PowerShell to perform a dynamic DNS update with TSIG to a BIND9 server
I run BIND9 DNS servers and allow Dynamic DNS updates from my customers by using a TSIG key.
One of my customers uses only a Windows environment, and therefore PowerShell to run scripts. He wants to use PowerShell to send dynamic updates to my…

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List dynamically added DNS records
I can't figure out how to list dynamically added DNS records. Lets say I add a record like this:
~$ nsupdate
> update add test.domain.com 3600 A 1.2.3.4
> send
After this I can look up the sub domain test.domain.com with:
~$ dig…

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BIND DNS A Record File
I've been adding about 10 DNS A records a week for the past 2 weeks. After updating a record using nsupdate it occurred to me that maybe I should find a way to separate the DNS A records from the other records in the Zone File. Is this possible? Or…

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Windows DNS clients can't update PTR records, but can update A records (not ACLs)
I have clients configured via GPO with the following settings enabled:
Dynamic Update
Primary DNS Suffix
Register DNS records with connection-specific DNS suffix
Register PTR Records: Register
I also have two DHCP servers that are servicing the…

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SLES DHCP Dynamic DNS: Unable to add forward map...: not found
I have a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11.3 install running on Amazon EC2 based off the official AMI.
With DHCP and BIND configured (via yast) I'm having issues with Dynamic DNS.
When a client connects to the DHCP server I receive the error…

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