Re: dynamic dns

From: Wesley Brown <webtacsat@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue Aug 03 2004 - 18:03:58 AKDT

... a few times every hour, WOW! That sucks, mine
only changes if I lose power to my network for more
than 20 to thirty minutes, in other words my modem
goes offline. I have had the same IP for months now.
Sounds like you hit the nail on the head with the
static IP market.

Wes Brown

--- Bob at Estiminc <bob@estimations.com> wrote:

> 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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