| Stephen Gran on 19 Sep 2006 23:10:49 -0000 |
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On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 05:22:44PM -0400, George Gallen said: > We will have one server at one location that has a dynamic IP DSL line. > This server will be behind a router (so it will see itself as 192.168...) > This server will have 2 printers it prints to. > > I need to use the server as an lpd server for those 2 printers for our other > system which is on a static IP address. > > My thought was to have a cron job on the remote (DSL) server that contacts > our static server every minute to get the IP address. > > Is there public domain software that will will accept the DSL contact and > update the static servers internal DNS for that address? I don't want to > have to update /etc/hosts everytime it changes (via a program). I'm assuming > I'd also have to 'lpc down prxx' 'lpc up prxx' so lpr now knows the correct IP > as well, or can I skip this step? > > Currently, our static server uses another DNS server for resolution, but I'd like > to keep this function on our server. use dyndns to keep track of the hostname to IP mapping, and just print to the hostname? That's the sort of solution I would look towards. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | People in general do not willingly read | | steve@lobefin.net | if they have anything else to amuse | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | them. -- S. Johnson | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment:
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