[NTLUG:Discuss] Dynamic IP and Website

[David Ross]

On Friday 13 June 2003 06:40 pm, Chuck Graf wrote:
> I have set up a website on my home box, using http://hn.org as the Domain
> Name Server.  This is a FQDN (www.cfgraf.com), not a "Vanity Account" (like
> cfgraf.hn.org would be).  Of course my IP is dynamic, changing about once a
> week.  I know that I can get a "Vanity Account" from hn that I can forward
> my FQDN to, and that that would keep the site available all the time (as hn
> runs a script to update the IP of the Vanity Account periodicly).  What I
> am wondering is if anyone has been able to write a script to update the
> regular account when the IP changes?  I already have a script in cron that
> sends me an email when my IP changes, but surely there is a way to update
> the account at hn using lynx and grep.  Has anyone tried this?

There is a script at dyndns.org that may suit your needs
http://www.dyndns.org/services/dyndns/clients.html
as for it working with hn,i don't know,but there's the link.
David
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