Alexander Farber wrote:
> And there is also ipcheck.py
>
> On 2/6/06, Keith Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> This will handle the pesty case of your IP changing.
>>
>> 1. dyndns.org - get a free subdomain to map to your IP.
>> 2. ddclient package - updates your DNS whenever your IP changes.
Having used both ddclient and ipcheck.py, I greatly prefer ddclient for
a couple reasons:
1. ddclient doesn't rely on crontabs or ppp.linkup scripts. It runs as
a background perl process, checking every n seconds for a new IP
address. Great for kernel PPPoE users. Can run as a regular user (not
sure if that's post 3.8-RELEASE or not).
2. At least in 3.8-RELEASE, it is less likely to trigger repeat (ie,
abusive) updates. Not sure what happened to ipcheck.py between 3.7
(used ipcheck.py here with userland PPPoE and ppp.linkup) and 3.8 to
make it abusive, but something (kernel PPPoE + crontab?) did.
3. ddclient will send you an email any time it actually does something
(true update, keep-alive update, system shutdown, error)
