> Over the years I wondered why public dynamic DNS services reinvented > these wheels, with custom clients rather than using nsupdate. Now it > makes sense.
How I wish they'd used a term other than "dynamic DNS" for their services, though... > While indeed, RFC 2136 had *me* covered, it didn't scale > well to provide this service to the masses. Indeed; imagine having to provide consumer routers with SIG(0) keys... :) Another advantage of offering a CGI (or RESTful) update interface between your clients and your DNS server is that you can typically easily plug authentication/authorization into whatever is available, e.g. LDAP, SQL, etc. -JP _______________________________________________ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users