Greg: On 2014-10-30 18:10 , Gregory Sloop wrote: > Re: [smokeping-users] Read target hostname/IP from a script's output > > > But I discarded that as well since I thought it was kind of > "overkill," and I didn't know whether SmokePing would eventually cache > the nameserver lookup. > > > > Smokeping doesn't cache any DNS information - it simply calls fping > with whatever IP/FQDN and fping does the lookup, if any. Good to know, thanks for confirming it. > The name server won't/shouldn't cache anything longer than the TTL on > the zone A record. [Which should be in your control in this case.] Yes, it is. > IMO, you're over thinking this. I often tend to do so. ;-) > Scripting a ddns type update will require not much time and works > fine. [I'd guess you could update a DDNS entry by setting up the PPPoE > in your router - virtually all have provision to update a ddns record > when the interface changes. I know. OpenWRT which I'm using of course can do it.
I think I'll go that route. Thanks for your comments. KR, Ralf
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