---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jose Gonzalez Gomez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 09-ago-2005 22:24 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] Dynamic DNS using Gentoo To: Dave Nebinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
2005/8/9, Dave Nebinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Jose, > > I'm currently DHCP behind DSL so I have the kind of setup you're looking at. > Apart from the obvious configuration things you'll have some other things to > keep in mind, like who is doing the DHCP negotiation for the IP address? If > the router is, it must be able to interact with the dynamic dns service, > otherwise you get into having to script something on the server side to > fetch the ip info from the router and connect to the remote ip address when > a change takes place. > It seems I don't have support for this on the router, so I'll have to go the scripting way... I have taken a look at portage, and ddclient and ez-ipupdate are available. > I don't think you'll find a free service that allows for hosting your own > name... Trust me, the small fee for dyndns.org is worth it to keep things > working. With the fee in place whenever my ip address changes I can ping > dyndns.org to have the ip address change and, so far, I have no complaints > about it at all. > Well, I was searching for a free service because if I have to pay anything for this I would consider paying a cheap hosting instead of mantaining my own server. > As for the software, look for ez-ipupdate. It handles most of the dynamic > dns sites including dyndns.org and others. > > In any case ez-ipupdate might be a good source for dynamic dns services; if > ez-ipupdate handles it then it's typically a good service. Thanks for the tip... I basically have found (from the suggestions on this thread, thanks everybody) the following providers with some kind of free dynamic dns service (in case anyone else is interested): http://www.dyndns.org/ http://www.dyns.cx/ http://www.zoneedit.com/ http://www.no-ip.com/ Thanks, best regards Jose -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
