Dynamic DNS (was: Status of Dapper?)

David Symons ubuntu at liberatedcomputing.net
Sun Apr 9 23:32:12 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 23:58 +0100, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> Antony Gelberg wrote:
> > You could either set up port-forwarding or a VPN.  The latter is 
> > preferable.
> 
> For someone's *home computer*? Home users don't have a dedicated
> gateway with a static IP.

Hi Daniel,

A (free) dynamic DNS service can be used in this situation.  One is:
    http://www.dyndns.org 

There are a number of dynamic DNS clients available (in universe)
including ez-ipupdate, ddclient and ipcheck.

Cheers, Dave.
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David Symons
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