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[Thomas Stivers]

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On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 01:34:10 PM -0500, Kenny Hitt wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> Yes, it works with DHCP.  My domain is on a box connected to a cable
> modem.  When my IP changes, it is easy to update it with dyndns.org.

To elaborate on what Kenny saidd you can also use dyndns even if your
server is behind a router/firewall. Just make sure that you have the
necessary ports open such as 80 and 443 (if you use https) and that
these ports are forwarded to the right machine on your network. This is
often frustrating to set up with the routers because the router also
uses dhcp to assign local addresses so you will want to set up some
static mappings in the router so that the same hardware address always
gets the same ip address. Once the outside world can get to your server
you need to make sure it is correctly referred to in the dns. The client
I use for this is ddclient which will update my dyndns.org account when
my ip address changes. You have to be sure to tell ddclient to get your
address from the web using an address like http://checkip.dyndns.org.
This will ensure that you don't set up your domain name to point to a
local (unroutable) address. I have probably made this whole process seem
more complicated than it is, but looking at the ddclient(1) and
ddclient.conf(5) man pages should help clear it up.

> Hope this helps.

Yeah, what he said.

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Thomas Stivers	e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org
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