Dynamic DNS (was: Status of Dapper?)

[Matt Price]

On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 11:11:34AM -0400, fwdout wrote:
> ??? 2006-04-10?????? 09:32 +1000???David Symons?????????
> > On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 23:58 +0100, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> > > Antony Gelberg wrote:
> > > > You could either set up port-forwarding or a VPN.  The latter is 
> > > > preferable.
> > > 
> > > For someone's *home computer*? Home users don't have a dedicated
> > > gateway with a static IP.
> > 
> > Hi Daniel,
> > 
> > A (free) dynamic DNS service can be used in this situation.  One is:
> >     http://www.dyndns.org 
> > 
> > There are a number of dynamic DNS clients available (in universe)
> > including ez-ipupdate, ddclient and ipcheck.
> the ddns3 is great too.

if your client has a nome network, then there's a good chance a cheap
off-the-shelf router will also do this.  My little wireless router
(SMC barricade G) does this for me.  This avoids any confusing
configuration that might result from confusion btwn the external
Dynamic IP and the local network IP.  

Matt


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