Good Day! I already setup dydns account and already setup a ddclient in my linux box. When I ping the external IP address given by dydns on my linux box, I received the following error "15 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 14008ms " I tried to ping it in my windows workstation, It works fine. Received reply from the Server. But, I tried to connect in windows using ftp myhostname.org, I received the following messages "connected to myhostname.org" After a while I received the following errors "Connection closed by remote host". Please help me out, Any help is much appreciated. Thanks you. Tony Arnold <tony.arnold@manchester.ac.uk> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> Bruce, Bruce Marshall wrote: > On Sunday 27 May 2007, Mitch Contla wrote: >> If you go this route, you'll probably want to install something like the >> ddclient package to periodically update your ip address with DynDNS. >> >> Don't forget, you'll also need to make sure that your router is configured >> to forward ftp to your server (TCP 20 & 21). > > I am sure that ddclient is NOT going to work if it is placed behind a router. > The only IP address it will see is the address given out by the router's > DHCP. Just went through this with a friend. No you can make ddclient work from behind a NAT router. ddclient has several ways of figuring out the IP address. One way is to query a WEB site that returns the address it sees. This returns the external IP address of the router. Regards, Tony -- Tony Arnold, IT Security Coordinator, University of Manchester, IT Services Division, Kilburn Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL. T: +44 (0)161 275 6093, F: +44 (0)870 136 1004, M: +44 (0)773 330 0039 E: tony.arnold@manchester.ac.uk, H: http://www.man.ac.uk/Tony.Arnold -- ubuntu-users mailing list ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users </blockquote> <hr size=1>Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk email the boot with the <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=40705/*http://mrd.mail.yahoo.com/try_beta?.intl=ca">All-new Yahoo! Mail </a>