Dynamic DNS Updater

[Robert Dailey]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 7:26 PM, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> wrote:

> Robert Dailey wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm currently running Ubuntu Server 8 and I'm looking for a utility that
> > I can run that does the following:
> >
> >    1. Obtains the WAN IP from my router (D-Link DGL-4500)
> >    2. Contacts DynDns.com and updates my Dynamic DNS domain.
> >
> > I read about ddclient, however it looks like no one has been working on
> > it for a while. I didn't see my router supported in there and I'm not
> > sure if the other supported routers will just magically work with mine.
>
> Ahhh...  Your router already has the ability to contact dyndns.com without
> any external programs!
>
>  From the web admin interface, go to "tools" and then "Dynamic DNS".
>
> No fuss, no muss.


Yeah, I was actually already using that, however I ran into a situation
where I had to update more than 1 domain. But I realized that I was missing
something terribly obvious, and that was that the 2nd domain could do a
lookup on the first :)

Thanks for your help guys!
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