Re: [Openvpn-users] HOWTO: Integrating client names into server-side DNS

[Charles D. <cd...@sp...>]

Ben Low wrote:
> This describes a mechanism for integrating OpenVPN client assignments  
> into a local (server) DNS, such that you can reference VPN clients by  
> name. e.g. 'common-name.vpn.example.net', where common-name is the  
> VPN client's authenticated username (typically the certificate's  
> Common Name).
> 
> The learn-address.sh script below maintains a separate /etc/hosts- 
> style file, adding and removing (commenting out) IP - name records as  
> openvpn clients connect and disconnect. Using this with the dnsmasq  
> DNS server's support for an 'additional hosts' file gives the desired  
> result.

Interesting -- that's considerably less code than the mechanism I've 
previously posted for doing the same thing using nsupdate to provide 
data to bind.

http://openvpn.net/archive/openvpn-users/2005-08/msg00146.html