Re: dynamic dns

The problem with mtaonline.net is that they change my IP address a few
times every *hour*. I called tech support to ask why, and he said that they
do it on purpose, something about it being an effective "pseudo-firewall"
against hacker intrusion. (When I asked if it was also a way to create a
market for static IP addresses at an extra $10/month, he said no.)

But anyway, wrt the 24-48 hour thing, it does tend to propagate fast enough
through dyndns.org to be useful from the local site. I just can't figure
out why it works from here but not from remote.

At 02:42 PM 8/3/04, you wrote:
>I tried to use dyndns.org one time and I don't think I
>had any problems with it. I say I think because I
>just use a service now that I got with the purchase of
>my domain names from networksolutions.com.
>
>Anyway, I do know that it takes 24 to 48 hours for the
>initial "change" to take place throughout the dns root
>servers. After that all my changes take place in
>under two hours.
>
>Hope that helps.
>
>Wes Brown
>
>--- Bob Crosby <bob@estimations.com> 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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