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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
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.
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... This command is seen by an http server on their end, and they pick the IP address out of the http server environment and do all the work on their end. myid and mypwd are passwords to their site, and the host= domain is a little "lab" environment I experiment with. This is my home gateway/router/server, running SuSE 9.0. My "production" site www.altaregos.com is hosted elsewhere. ZoneEdit points my main web and email addresses there, and my "sandbox" here. And best of all is the price. So long as I stay with five or fewer domains (I now have four) it's 100% discount. -- Daryl Lee Open the present--it's a gift.