Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Per Jessen
[08-27-13 07:52]: Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Per Jessen
[08-27-13 07:23]: Damon Register wrote:
Ok I have ddclient working now. It was a PICNIC lol so I guess that means you have found and settled on a tool
On 8/26/2013 5:24 PM, Paul Groves wrote: that works. I don't know that tool but I guess I should learn. I am using no-ip. There are Windows and Linux clients for no-ip and I am using the Linux one on SuSE 12.3. I have no experience with ddclient but it sounds much more complex than no-ip.
Damon,
ddclient is the client software, no-ip (et al) is the service it talks to.
"no-ip.com" provides a binary, noip2, that reports your current ip addr every so often, configurable, and no-ip ties that addr to your alpha address. Isn't that what ddclient does?
Not by itself, no. It needs a dynamic DNS _service_ to talk to.
So ddclient must be able to communicate with ...no-ip.com in order to tie the dotted quad to the alpha address?
Yup.
And I _assume_ the service is not standard between different providers, making a standard fire drill mess?
Correct - and that's where ddclient is useful. It has support for a number of different dynIP services. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (17.4°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - free DNS hosting, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org