[HamWAN PSDR] DNS questions

[Dean Gibson AE7Q]

Sure, depending upon when.  By "static allocation", do you mean always 
assigning the same fixed IP address to a given radio?

On 2014-03-14 19:17, Bart Kus wrote:
> Wanna test static allocation, Dean? I need a test monkey that can help 
> out.  I'd probably need modem access though.
>
> --Bart
>
>
> On 3/14/2014 7:16 PM, Dean Gibson AE7Q wrote:
>> I got it to work, using the "/tool dns-update" command. 
>> Unfortunately, I have to key in the radio's IP address;  I haven't 
>> found a way to have the radio *automatically* update my DNS server.  
>> However, on the MikroTik web site, there appear to be scripts I can 
>> adapt ...
>>
>> If you get your DHCP server to send assigned IP addresses to the DNS 
>> server for hamwan.net, then I can just CNAME to that. There's no 
>> rush;  who knows if/when I will ever need/use it.
>>
>> On 2014-03-14 18:32, Ryan Elliott Turner wrote:
>>> NB: most DDNS uses encryption, so watch out for that. 
>>> http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Tools/Dynamic_DNS
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 8:30 PM, Nigel Vander Houwen 
>>> <nigel at k7nvh.com <mailto:nigel at k7nvh.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>      1. Not presently. Eventually there will be some fancier stuff
>>>         that will route your "user subnet" to you, and you'll get
>>>         "link local" IPs over DHCP just to get things started. For
>>>         now, you just get a global IP, and will *probably* get the
>>>         same IP, but it's not guaranteed.
>>>      2. I'm not sure offhand.
>>>      3. Presently no, but we are working on the hamwan.net
>>>         <http://hamwan.net> authoritative anycast nameservers which
>>>         will do this.
>>>
>>>
>>>     Nigel K7NVH
>>>
>>>     On Mar 14, 2014, at 6:29 PM, Dean Gibson AE7Q <hamwan at ae7q.net
>>>     <mailto:hamwan at ae7q.net>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>     DNS questions:
>>>>
>>>>      1. Do I always get the same IP address (using the same MAC)? 
>>>>         If so, I will just add it to my DNS server.
>>>>      2. If not, does that radio support DDNS updates to a
>>>>         configurable BIND DNS server (if, so I couldn't find it).
>>>>      3. Do you create a hostname on an externally visible domain?
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>
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