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   Message 2,148 of 2,348   
   Rick Merrill to Michael Ziegler   
   Re: Automatically assign DNS names to op   
   30 May 07 18:55:14   
   
   From: rick0.merrill@NOSPAM.gmail.com   
      
   Michael Ziegler wrote:   
   > Hi everyone,   
   >   
   > I've recently set up a little OpenVPN network, that allows all the   
   > clients that are connected to communicate with each other in a secure   
   > way. The VPN itself works perfectly fine.   
   >   
   > Now I'd like all clients that connect to automatically get a DNS   
   > hostname as a subdomain of users.geek-net.de, according to the CN of the   
   > certificate they authenticated with. So, the user mistagee would get   
   > mistagee.users.geek-net.de.   
   >   
   > Currently, I'm using a cron-job that runs a PHP script to achieve that.   
   > The PHP script parses the status.log file, generates DNS entries from it   
   > and writes these into PowerDNS's mysql database, which then answers   
   > questions. That works - but is there a better way to do it? :/   
   >   
   >   
   > Kind regards,   
   > Michael   
      
      
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