[TriLUG] Dynamic DNS

[Tom Woods]

You should wait 24 days to update your IP address if it has not 
changed...  Also, you can upgrade your account for $9.95/yr and the 35 
day update requirement is removed...  PLUS  you will be supporting a 
great service.

 From the dyndns.org FAQ
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How often can/should I update my hostname?
A Dynamic DNS hostname only needs to be updated when your IP address has 
changed. Any updates more frequently than this - from the same IP 
address - will be considered abusive by the update system and may result 
in your hostname becoming blocked. Any script which runs periodically 
should check to make sure that the IP has actually changed before making 
an update, or the host will become blocked. An exception to this is for 
users with mostly static IP addresses; you may update 24-35 days after 
your previous update with the same IP address to "touch" the record and 
prevent it from expiring. Users will receive an e-mail notification if a 
host has been unchanged for 30 days, hosts are deleted after 35 days 
without being updated unless you've purchased upgrade credit(s).

Jeremy Portzer wrote:

>On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 12:18, Rick DeNatale wrote:
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>>On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 22:51 -0500, Michael Sh wrote:
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>>>Hi,
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>>>Go to http://www.dyndns.org and setup with them, they also have a list of updater applications for most platforms on their site...and you can set a "webhop" as well.
>>>
>>>Mike
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>>+1 for dyndns.
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>>I use ddclient on a linux box on my lan to update them.  
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>I use ddclient as well, with www.easydns.org.  The default set up is to
>update every 15 days; I don't know of easyDNS has a similar requirement
>that you update that often or not.  It has worked quite well so far,
>although my IP address has not ever changed in the year that I've been
>running it.    (Earthlink high-speed Internet through TWC cable.)  But
>it successfully updates to the same thing every 15 days!  :-)
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>I also like the other DNS features available at easydns.org.  They'll
>register domains for you too if you need that.
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>--Jeremy
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