NAME

       dhid — Dynamic Host Information System client.

SYNOPSIS

       dhid [-h] [-p port] [-P pidfile] [-f conffile]

DESCRIPTION

       dhid is the DHIS client daemon. After setting up with a DHIS provider, each machine may run a dhid daemon
       (in background) in order to update its dynamic IP address within the server.

       /etc/dhid.conf should be configured according to the provider's assigned parameters.

       Once  running,  dhid  sends  echo  request packets to the server and expects a reply. Once received, dhid
       tries to authenticate at the server either in secure on  insecure  mode.  From  then  on,  and  providing
       authentication  was  successful, the client waits and replies to queries originated at the server. If the
       server doesn't receive acknowledgments of these packets the host is marked  offline.   Likewise,  if  the
       client doesn't receive queries for a period of time the offline stage is restored.

       Therefore,  the  only thing a DHIS host needs is to run the dhid client.  The server is able to determine
       when the host is online and the server tables are updated automatically.

OPTIONS

       -h      Show usage information.

       -p port
               Specify port to listen on. If not specified, the default is port 58800.

       -P pidfile
               Use an alternative PID file instead of /var/run/dhisd.pid.

       -l conffile
               Use an alternative configuration file instead of /etc/dhid.conf.

FILES

       /etc/dhid.conf
               DHIS client configuration.

AUTHOR

       dhid has been written by Joao Cabral <jcnc@dhis.org>.

       This manual page was written by Guus Sliepen <guus@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system.

Debian GNU/Linux                                   2002-06-22                                            DHID(8)