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authorzuntum <zuntum@pkgsrc.org>2001-10-31 22:52:58 +0000
committerzuntum <zuntum@pkgsrc.org>2001-10-31 22:52:58 +0000
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+By the means of a DHIS client a host which is assigned a dynamic
+IP address (either from its ISP or from DHCP) is able to communicate
+with a DHIS server in order to advertise its newly acquired IP
+address.
+
+The DHIS server (permanently online) listens to UDP messages from
+its clients and authenticates these against its knowledge of keys.
+When authentication is successful the DHIS server updates one or
+more databases with the newly received IP address for the given
+client.
+
+The server then keeps sending, every period of time, check requests
+to each of its connected clients. These need to be acknowledged.
+If not the server will consider, on an individual basis, that the
+client has disconnected and will
+again update the databases to an offline state.
+
+Alternativelly the server may receive an OFFLINE_REQ packet from
+the client, in which case the DNS record is updated at once and
+the online state droped.