[Babel-users] ddns with linode

[Toke Høiland-Jørgensen]

Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com> writes:

> Not really.
>
> * The first couple of linode steps seem to be pretty manual. With
> nsupdate it's a bit less manual with bind9....
>
> * I don't need to register all my boxes in global dns, just a couple
> servers. In that case, it's http://ceres.taht.net:8080
>
> * Those few that I do, I'd like to register each of the source
> specific addresses in dns so as to be able to fall over...
>
> * it would be good for each to install "the best" ss address as it's
> default addr (is that what the prefsrc patch could do?)
>
> * Ceres is not an openwrt box (no ddns package), it's a fresh upgrade
> to ubuntu bionic... and systemd breaks /etc/network/ifup.post rules
> nowadays, has no ifup/ifdown commands....

Hmm, sounds like you could actually use my nsregd for this:
https://github.com/tohojo/nsregd

Takes a bit of setup the first time around, but after that you can just
deploy new boxes by running the client binary on them. It's Go, though,
so won't run on MIPS...

-Toke