Subject: Re: Package suggestion: No-IP.com Dynamic DNS update client
To: Russell Hanneken <rhanneken@pobox.com>
From: David Ferlier <david@netbsd-fr.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 02/05/2003 04:51:54
Hi Russel,
I am packaging it right now ;)
David
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 06:27:00PM -0800, Russell Hanneken wrote:
> I wonder if someone smarter than I am could packagize No-IP.com's Dynamic
> DNS update client?
>
> The so-called "Linux" version compiles on all flavors of BSD; you can
> download it here:
>
> http://www.no-ip.com/downloads.php
>
> (The documentation at http://www.no-ip.com/unixNotes.php says you have to
> patch the source to make it build on *BSD, but that's actually no longer
> true--see the comments in the source file noip.c.)
>
> The FreeBSD ports collection includes it; see
>
> http://www.freshports.org/net/noip/
>
> The FreeBSD port maintainer seems to have written some patches for it, and
> he made it so it runs under its own user/group id. He also wrote his own
> version of the startup/shutdown script (the Linux version doesn't work on
> FreeBSD or NetBSD--at least the shutdown part doesn't).
>
> It's a fairly simple program. If anyone could turn it into a NetBSD
> package, I'd be eternally grateful.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Russell Hanneken
> rhanneken@pobox.com
>
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