[TriLUG] Free DNS hosting revisited:

Lance A. Brown lance at bearcircle.net
Mon Aug 23 13:27:14 EDT 2010


matt at noway2.thruhere.net wrote:
> I used to have a dynamic IP from TWC, which changed a couple of times.  I
> did not try using their software for updates and instead tried to use my
> Netgear router for this function which supposedly supported them.  It
> never worked and a change of IP caused a loss of connectivity until I
> manually restored it.
> 
> Overall, I too am happy with DynDNS and my 'free' domain with them has
> never caused me any trouble, or failed to resolve as long as it pointed to
> the correct location.

I've been using dyndns to manage the DNS entry for my TWC-assigned IP on
my home router for > 5 years now.  Tomato firmware running on my WRT54G
updates dyndns every 2 days and any time it reboots.  I've not had to
worry about my dyndns record for quite some time.

--[Lance]

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