Chris Roubekas wrote:
Dear all,
I have a SuSE8.1 fully patched box which connects to the internet and received a dynamic IP from its ISP. In order to always be able to connect to this box whenever it is on line I have created an account in dyndns and have assigned the dynamic IP configuration as stated. Downloaded the client ddclinet from their site and configured as much as I could... However the system doesn't seem to update the IP through the configuration file. Can someone explain to me how this file is supposed to be setup or perhaps a different site that will do the same things for me but with much less work??
Thanks all! Chris
How do you connect to your ISP ? ADSL/Cable/analog-modem ? How do you detect the IP-address of the connection ? Please specify a little bit more. At home I have an ADSL-modem/router. To know what IP address it has (external) ddclient goes to a web-page of the router to get this (I need to supply the username and the password of the router). With this ddclient checks if the IP-address has changed. If it has, it updates dyndns. Of course to do this you need to specify the username and password of dyndns. The setup to get the IP-address from the router is rather straightforward. With a browser go to the page of your router were you see the external IP-address. Look at the page-source (=raw html), and look for the text preceding the IP-address. Take this as the text to scan for in the ddclient-configuration. Make sure that there is no possibility to get the wrong IP-address. If this is impossible for some reason (at work I have a router wich doesn't support this) you have to use the Internet to get your IP-address (=loss of bandwidth). HTH a bit. -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Koenraad Lelong R&D Manager ACE electronics n.v.