Re: dynamic dns

From: Mac Mason <mac@cs.hmc.edu>
Date: Tue Aug 03 2004 - 15:02:23 AKDT

Are you behind any sort of router or such thing?
More specifically, what's the IP address it's getting? If it's got
something like 192.168.X.X, that's not going to work too well...

    --Mac

On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 01:29:45PM -0800, Bob Crosby wrote:
> I've been trying to come up with a way to be able to access my home
> computer connected to mtaonline.net, without having to spend the extra
> $10/month they want for a static IP address.
> I set up an account on dyndns.org to alias the dynamic mtaonline IP address
> to a static hostname on one of their servers. And installed ddclient, a
> perl script that grabs your current IP address and (if different from
> previous read) updates the dyndns.org database.
>
> So far so good. From any machine on my home LAN, it appears to be working
> properly. I can point my browser to aliasname.org, and it works. I can log
> in to my account on dyndns.org, and, sure enough, the current IP is kept
> updated. I can also look at log files on the server and see that ddclient
> is working as it should.
>
> But it doesn't seem to work from other locations -- which is the whole
> point. When I log in to my dyndns.org account from my office computer,
> the IP address stored in the database doesn't update. Reloading the page
> or clearing the cache doesn't help.
>
> Does anyone have any experience with, or ideas about that?
>
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Julian "Mac" Mason                            mac@cs.hmc.edu
Computer Science '06                          (909)-607-3129
Harvey Mudd College
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