On 4 Jun 2002, duncan wrote: > Cool. glad to hear it. Do you use the rndc control feature? You bet. I also use signed requests to do DNS updates from my box at home. This is how I assign a static name to my cablemodem at home.. forget using dyndns! :) how you set that up: key host.example.com. { algorithm hmac-md5; secret "shhdonttell"; }; zone "example.com" { type master; file "example.com"; update-policy { grant host.example.com. name host.example.com. A; }; }; this will allow any host providing the secret in the key 'host.example.com' to modify (delete, add, etc) the A record for host.example.com. Then, in my dhclient-script on my box at home: echo -e "server ns.example.com\nzone example.com.\nupdate delete host.example.com A\nupdate add host.example.com. 120 A $new_ip_address\n\n" | nsupdate -k /etc/nsupdate.private &> /dev/null and /etc/nsupdate.private contains: Private-key-format: v1.2 Algorithm: 157 (HMAC_MD5) Key: shhdonttell /me loves bind9 :) -- Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500