Fwd: [gentoo-user] [OT?] Dynamic DNS using Gentoo

[Jose Gonzalez Gomez <jgonzalez.openinput@gmail.com>]

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From: Jose Gonzalez Gomez <jgonzalez.openinput@gmail.com>
Date: 09-ago-2005 22:24
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] Dynamic DNS using Gentoo
To: Dave Nebinger <dnebinger@joat.com>


2005/8/9, Dave Nebinger <dnebinger@joat.com>:
> Jose,
>
> I'm currently DHCP behind DSL so I have the kind of setup you're looking at.
> Apart from the obvious configuration things you'll have some other things to
> keep in mind, like who is doing the DHCP negotiation for the IP address?  If
> the router is, it must be able to interact with the dynamic dns service,
> otherwise you get into having to script something on the server side to
> fetch the ip info from the router and connect to the remote ip address when
> a change takes place.
>

It seems I don't have support for this on the router, so I'll have to
go the scripting way... I have taken a look at portage, and ddclient
and ez-ipupdate are available.

> I don't think you'll find a free service that allows for hosting your own
> name... Trust me, the small fee for dyndns.org is worth it to keep things
> working.  With the fee in place whenever my ip address changes I can ping
> dyndns.org to have the ip address change and, so far, I have no complaints
> about it at all.
>

Well, I was searching for a free service because if I have to pay
anything for this I would consider paying a cheap hosting instead of
mantaining my own server.

> As for the software, look for ez-ipupdate.  It handles most of the dynamic
> dns sites including dyndns.org and others.
>
> In any case ez-ipupdate might be a good source for dynamic dns services; if
> ez-ipupdate handles it then it's typically a good service.

Thanks for the tip... I basically have found (from the suggestions on
this thread, thanks everybody) the following providers with some kind
of free dynamic dns service (in case anyone else is interested):

http://www.dyndns.org/
http://www.dyns.cx/
http://www.zoneedit.com/
http://www.no-ip.com/

Thanks, best regards
Jose

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