Questions tagged [dynamic]
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multi-master replicated dynamic dns subdomains
For lack of a better title. Our environment requires having subdomains where we allow dynamic updates using bind as the DNS server and its nsupdate utility authenticating via keyfiles. We're looking to make this more redundant. Currently we have…

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How to send dynamic update to DNS Server using Avahi?
I am using beaglebone running avahi-daemon and I have configure it to respond mdns query with local name “myboard.local” when accessed from PC on same network. It works fine.
But, how can I configure Avahi to send dynamic update message to DNS…

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Specify IP + guest hostname on a virtual machine (without booting it)
My question is simple but I am not sure if it is possible :
Is there a way to specify a custom IP address AND a different hostname before I boot a virtual machine from VMWare Workstation ? (Win 7 or Win XP guest OS)
Example :
Virtual Machine #1…

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Apache dynamic aliases
I've got LAMP setup on a VM that I use for multiple projects. My document root is a /www and I create a folder for each project within it.
/www/project1-name/
/www/project2-name/
I access them in my browser like…

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Apache2 dynamic documentroot depending on URL
I have looked at setting up an Apache server.
I want to run our site example.com on the server, as well as testing test.example.com.
This I can setup by having two almost identical VirtualHost in the configure file in sites-available.
What I then…

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Looking for a loadbalancer
I am looking for an open source loadbalancer for linux. My requirements are simple. I want One load balancer infront of multiple webservers. It should be able to split the load evenly among the webserver using a round robin fashion. Easy to install…

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Setting up openldap for ldaps with cn=config
I'm trying to enable SSL connections on an OpenLDAP 2.4.23 server, but all the instructions I find only discuss the old slapd.conf configuration. Can anyone point to some instructions for setting it up under cn=config?

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Can you combine dhcp dynamic dns updates and static IPs in the same Bind zone?
I'm in the process of configuring ISC dhcpd and Bind9 on SLES Linux in our office for internal DNS. I'd like to put everything in one zone, city.domain.tld for example. I can get the dhcpd server to update the zone, but if I add static records to…

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Configure NGINX by passing CLI parameters instead of config file
I am looking for a way to change some config parameters dynamically before running NGINX. Perfectly by using command line parameters. I want to write a bash script that takes for example two parameters:
root directory of files to be served,
name…

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Using Ansible to provisioning users: Modify facts/expand hostvars?
First off, I apologize for the terrible title. I'm not entirely sure how to succinctly describe the problem.
So here's my challenge. I'm working on provisioning database users and would like a flexible method of defining users. I'm encountering a…

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Using Dynamic paths in Apache httpd.conf file
I know how to set up multiple hosts in an apache httpd.conf file but is it possible to make that dynamic.
If I put my folders in directories like this.
c:\
development\
websites\
SiteA
…

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set up a SSH server
I set up a SSH server on my Ubuntu on my laptop by OpenSSH. While ssh localhost is okay, I try to first ssh to another computer from, and then from there ssh back to my laptop with its external IP address but it fails with "connect to host xxx port…

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IIS 7: launch unique site instance per host name
Is it possible to configure IIS 7 so that a single site with multiple bindings (or wildcard bindings) will launch a unique instance for each unique host name?
To explain why this is desirable, we have an application that retrieves its configuration…

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Dynamic VPN tunneling technologies
Ok, so I'm asking a more specific question this time.
I'm writing a paper about Cisco's DMVPN and one of the tasks I have is to make the analysis of available network solutions which use dynamic VPN tunnels. Because the paper is about DMVPN, I have…

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DHCP not actually updating DNS even though logs indicate otherwise
This question is sort of a follow-up to this previous question: DHCP failing to update DNS
We have a Windows Server 2003 SP2 machine that is a domain controller, DNS server, and DHCP server. Our DHCP audit logs were filled with Event ID error code…
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