dynamic ip

[Andreas Ericsson]

andre silva wrote:
> Hi people,
> 
> 
> My name is André and i'm new to here. 
> I needed from a program to get dynamic ip address   to
> Nagios to monitor but i did not find.
> so i write this routine.
> I would like to know if this extra exists or not.
> if not, i would like to send my code to you.
> 

Hosts with dynamic IP addresses can be monitored by their hostname, 
provided you run dynamic dns updates. I know winbindd (not misspelled, 
part of the samba suit) can be used to resolve hostnames for a windows 
network, but I've never tried it so you're on your own with that.

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Lead Developer


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