Dynamic DNS

[David Symons]

On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 00:44 +0100, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> David Symons wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I didn't know about these services. Let's see if I understand. I'd 
> install one of those client on the customer's computer. Every time it 
> boots it would contact the DynDNS server so that DynDNS always knows his 
> current IP. I could then ssh to username.dnsalias.org and arrive at his 
> computer.
> 
> Did I get it right?

Spot on!

> That's a neat idea. Very useful. Thank you very much for the link.

np :)

Cheers, Dave.
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David Symons
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