Paul You and me both....i'm getting installed on Saturday, all going well.
Personally, I use no-ip.com although I suppose this could go the way of a flame war regarding the best DDNS service to use. Your hostname takes the form: <preferred-username.no-ip.com> although you could configure for wildcards for distinction between different services, i.e. www.host.no-ip.com ftp.host.no-ip.com etc etc etc. This could be useful for virtual domains within apache, but at the end of the day, they all point to the same IP address. Updating the IP address is handled by a linux binary which reads a configuration file and can run in the background as a daemon, pretty easy to set up IMHO, and the TTL must be pretty low because I've been using it with my 56K dialup and generally I only lose it for about 5 minutes when it hangs up and redials (daemon running every 2 minutes or so) however using the cable modem, apparently, the IP address doesnt change an awful lot, so you could get away with updating the client every hour or maybe less. My two cents anyway Regards Darren -----Original Message----- From: Paul Millar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 11 June 2002 16:19 To: Scottish Linux Users Group Subject: [scottish] Dynamic DNS Hi guys and gals, I'm making the big plunge to broadband soon (using NTL Cable modem) and I'm toying with the idea of using Dynamic DNS so I can still get into my machine when I don't know the IP address. Does anyone have any advice or experiences they could share? I've found a number of free DDNS sites (see http://www.technopagan.org/dynamic/ for a list). Are they likely to be any good? Cheers, Paul. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Particle Physics (Theory & Experimental) Groups Paul Millar Department of Physics and Astronomy [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Glasgow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Glasgow, G12 8QQ, Scotland http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/paulm +44 (0)141 330 4717 A54C A9FC 6A77 1664 2E4E 90E3 FFD2 704B BF0F 03E9 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk -------------------------------------------------------------------- This e-mail and any attachments may be confidential or legally privileged. If you received this message in error or are not the intended recipient, you should destroy the e-mail message and any attachments or copies, and you are prohibited from retaining, distributing, disclosing or using any information contained herein. Please inform us of the erroneous delivery by return e-mail. Thank you for your co-operation. Mercer Human Resource Consulting Limited is regulated by the Financial Services Authority and is a member of the General Insurance Standards Council. Registered in England No. 984275. Registered Office: Telford House, 14 Tothill Street, London SW1H 9NB -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
