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dnsextd, TCP, and IPv6

Hello interested parties. dnsextd (in my git repository) now supports TCP. It was actually sort of an amusing bug. I guess the dnsextd code must date back to PowerPC, because it had an extra ntoh call which on little-endian systems would cause TCP requests to fail. It’s fixed in the “tcp” branch of my git [...]

wamupd-0.1.1

So, some news on the wamupd front. I just released version 0.1.1 (tagged as such in git; also available as a tarball at http://files.roguelazer.com/projects/wamupd/wamupd-0.1.1.tar.bz2), which has a lot of new features over the prior, unnamed release.

wamupd now stays resident, renewing leases and such
It can talk to Avahi over D-BUS and pick up other services registered [...]

Dynamic DNS: Part Two

This post is a follow-up to Dynamic DNS
When last I left you, we had basic updateable DNS running and could update it from OS X. I’ve been a bit busy since then, but thanks to some prodding from @Loredo, I got back in and started looking at. What follows is the exciting story of how [...]

*nix Tip of the Day: Dynamic DNS

It’s nice to have DNS records for all of your computers. It’s a giant pain in the ass to remember IP addresses, especially if you’re on something like a cable connection, where the IP address is dynamic (but only changes every month or two). Now, you could go ahead and use DynDNS or No-IP or [...]