Re: Who turned out my lights ? (Thanks)

[Doogie Brodie <ukhad@xxxxxxx>]

Yeah, I use directupdate with my dyndns address.

Basically it works like this.....

You create an account with dyndns, and setup a dynamic DNS record. My
account gives me doogie.dnsalias.com.

You tell dyndns what IP address to send your url to. This can either be
done manually via the web interface, or by using a client, such as
DirectUpdate (there is a list of clients on the DynDNS website)

The client (once informed of your DynDNS account details) monitors your
IP address, and every time it changes, sends the new one to DynDNS. You
can also set auto refreshes, to always update your address once every 28
days, because otherwise your dynamic address will be marked as stale on
DynDNS' system.

One other point, if you're going to be using it to access from work.....
the Novell BorderManager (*yuck!*) server at my office often takes a
huff, and holds a cached DNS entry, so pinging my doogie.dnsalias.com
resolves to my last IP address, and not my current one. I either get our
Novell admin guy to flush the cache, or login to DynDNS and ask it for
my current IP address, or use Samspade.org to do a lookup live and not
with a silly cached DNS.

HTH

Doogie

Campbell Macdonald wrote:

> http://www.directupdate.net
 has been used successfully in conjunction
> with dyndns.org, I find it very useful for auto updating the address
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