[ale] Dynamic DNS

[Matt Rideout]

I do the same thing with DynDNS and a CNAME. If the IP goes 30 days 
without changing, I get an email notification from DynDNS that the 
domain is about to expire, at which point, I click on the included link, 
and am good for another 30-days. That's really low on the annoyance 
scale, but it's good to know about the Tomato workaround.

Craig, don't worry about the CNAME thing if you don't run your own 
domain that you'd want to use with this, but if you do, giving us some 
background info on where your domain currently resides would help us 
point you in the right direction for getting things setup. Your first 
step will be to setup a DynDNS account and client regardless.

Richard Bronosky wrote, On 10/4/09 2:45 PM:
> I use dyndns.com too. My solution to wanting to use my own domain is
> that I have home.bronosky.com as a CNAME to bronosky.homelinux.com.
> which is one of their many domains. It works great. The only issue I
> run into is that Comcast regularly allows me to keep my IP address for
> more than 30 days. The default Linksys firmware only updates
> dyndns.com when my IP changes. This allows my account at dyndns.com to
> expire. Using Tomato firmware resolves this.
> </shameless_tomato_plug_number_31>
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> On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Andrew Grieser <agrieser at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I've used dyndns (dyndns.com) for a while. It's easy to register a subdomain for free (1), and they seem to be well supported by update clients (included in dd-wrt and pfsense).
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>> The only problem is that if you want to use your own domain (ex: yourname.com), they charge an arm and a leg to provide dynamic dns. I wish they would have a low volume / low cost option.
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>> Andrew
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>> 1: http://www.dyndns.com/services/dns/dyndns/
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>> On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 02:00:06PM -0400, Craig Button wrote:
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>>>    Ok again being the cheapskate I am and not wanting to pay for a static IP
>>>    address, does anyone have any experience with any of the dynamic DNS
>>>    services?  I'm open to suggestions and remember I'm an advanced user and
>>>    not a professional geek.  I just want to be able to access my WIKI when
>>>    I'm on the road.
>>>       
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