Re: DOH! - why didn't I think of that before?

["Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>]

I answered my own question!! :)

Following some links from the SEG tech support page, I found some alternate
DDNS clients that perfectly easily detect the routers' external address,
and
register it..

The only thing is of course, that they cannot detect the IP address change
(as I suspected), so must be set to poll the router periodically.

I'm currently trying one caled yiPost from KVtek, that can only poll as
frequently as every 5 minutes, so in worst case, I could potentially have a
5 minute lag before correct IP is updated at dyndns...

better than no correct IP at all though eh!

Paul G.



>From: "Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>Subject: [ukha_d] DOH! - why didn't I think of that before?
>Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 16:11:48 +0100
>
>I got my whizzo new ISDN/ADSL router from SEG late on Friday evening
(it
>came when I was out, so the neighbour took it in)
>
>In no time at all, I've got it set up and working, and it is providing
my
>internet connectivity right now...
>
>and only now have I just realised one thing...
>
>How the hell am I supposed to use a DDNS service now? - previously the
ISDN
>connection was managed by MS Proxy server/external TA combination, so
the
>internet facing IP address was assigned to an interface on the NT
server,
>so
>it was a piece of cake to run a DDNS client there to register it each
>time...
>
>Now of course, the dynamic IP address is assigned to the router...
>
>Has anyone got any ideas for getting round this? - I need to detect
>whenever
>the router goes online, and then detect it's external IP, in order to
be
>able to register it with DynDNS.org
>
>The router does have a built-in webserver and telnet server for
>management/config, and one of the pages does show the connection status
and
>external IP, so the only idea I have had so far is to use a script to
>scrape
>the IP address from the webpage and or telnet service, and push it into
the
>DDNS client as a manual update... but that seems rather inelegant, and
>whilst I don't believe I'd have any difficulty with the script to
acquire
>the Address, I'm not so sure about automating the DDNS client to
register
>it. Also, I have the problem that unless the router can somehow trigger
the
>script to run when required, I'll have to have the script polling
>constantly
>just looking for an address change...
>
>All ideas greatfully accepted...
>
>Paul G.
>
>
>
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