Rich Shepard wrote: > On Tue, 10 Jan 2012, Galen Seitz wrote: > >> This is based on wanting to replace a Spiritone/Frontier DSL connection. >> This is a 3M/768k connection with a static IP that costs us ~$51/month >> based on a one year commitment. > > Galen, > > Yesterday I created a namecheap.com account and moved the DNS servers for > my two domains to theirs. Today I started the process of transferring my two > domains to them (the business domain from DomainDiscover, the personal > domain from godaddy). Namecheap.com provides free dynamic DNS serverices so > dynDNS is not needed. > > Bill Barry sent me a cron script he uses to check whether his IP address > has changed; it runs every 5 minutes. If the address does change, the new > one is entered in his router. > > In my naivete, I think this overcomes the SpiritOne/Frontier DSL issue. Is > that correct? When I'm in a hotel whose nameserver cannot resolve my address > by name I can use the current IP address that I obtained with 'host' and > store in a text file in ~/. What's your thoughts?
Sounds reasonable to me, although if a given connection's nameserver is down, it's likely that other stuff is broken too. Given what we've heard from Spiritone, it sounds as if changes to the assigned IP will be very rare. I've never used dynamic DNS before, but obviously many people do. My current plan is to install the latest version of openwrt on my router and use the ddns-scripts package to update DNS. We use easyDNS.com for DNS hosting. They support dynamic DNS, so hopefully it will just require a little tweaking to switch over to a dynamic DNS setup. galen -- Galen Seitz [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
