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HOW-TO: Basic installation of "Dynamic DNS update from DHCP" for Daniel J. Bernstein's djbdns (TinyDNS) on Ubuntu Linux

Today's blog post explains how to get this very useful component of the TinyDNS project to work with Ubuntu Server. You may fetch down the Michael Stella's original version of his code, and then note my adjustments to get it to work on the Ubuntu Server (9.04 through 10.04).

http://www.thismetalsky.org/projects/dhcp_dns

Unpack the file, then make the following adjustments:

Patching up djb_update.pl

### Globals - you can change these as needed

# Domain name
-my $domain_name = "MYDOMAIN";

HOW-TO: Basic installation of Daniel J. Bernstein's djbdns (TinyDNS) on Ubuntu Linux

When I first went looking for HOW-TO docs concerning installing Daniel J. Bernstein's djbdns on Ubuntu, I could not find such. What I did find was plenty of docs on how to download and compile Mr. Bernstein's djbdns code from source, however Ubuntu has very kindly created packages of everything you need for installing djbdns.

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