On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 6:07 PM, Jonathan Bennett <jbscienc...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> You all might find this interesting, I've used the CMD_CYCLE_OPEN function
> to build a fwknop powered ddns service. There are a few of my customers
> that have dynamic IP addresses, and it's useful to be able to remote access
> those customers even if the IP has changed.
>
> I have written two scripts, one that is called by the CMD_CYCLE_OPEN, and
> uses nsupdate to do the actual update process. This script takes the
> hostname to change, and the Source IP address as seen by fwknopd.
>
> The second script makes everything more useful, it takes the new hostname
> as an argument, generates keys, adds the proper fwknopd access stanza, and
> spits out the one-liner fwknop command that can be added to a remote
> crontab to keep everything working smoothly.
>
> I think I'll dump the scripts on Github once I prettify them a bit more,
> just in case someone else wants to use the same setup.
>
Very cool - looking forward to seeing those scripts.
Speaking of one other usage of the open/close cycle stuff, I'm aware of an
effort to get fwknopd running directly on a Synology NAS. The challenge
looks to be that the iptables 'comment' match isn't available, so the
open/close cycle feature provides an effective workaround.
--Mike
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