[Babel-users] ddns with linode

[Dave Taht]

Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke at toke.dk> writes:

> 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?)

I don't know if anyone has ever addressed the "prefix coloring" issue
in anything yet?

My guess is that the "best" address would generally be the one with the
shortest hops to a well known dns server.

>>
>> * 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...

I'll give it a shot... this weekend. Maybe. My cup overfloweth.

> -Toke