Daryl Lee wrote:
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 12:39:55PM +0100, Koenraad Lelong wrote:
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
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I don't know how committed you are to DynDNS, so this may not help. I use ZoneEdit, and the update process is trivial in the extreme. In my /etc/ppp/ip-up.local, I have the following line:
curl http://myid:mypwd@dynamic.zoneedit.com/auth/dynamic.html?host=www2.altaregos...
DynDNS with ddclient can do this also, but why waste bandwith (I check every 5 minutes !) ? Only if my IP-address is changed I send an update to dynDNS. Ah, I see, I think you don't have a permanent connection, or no external router. Apart from that, dynDNS can provide you with a domain-name, ZoneEdit does not, as far as I can see on their web-site. But that's a question of preference. -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Koenraad Lelong R&D Manager ACE electronics n.v.