[H-GEN] Dynamic IPs

[Peter J Arnold]

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dyndns IS a permanent server that sets/maintains all the dns records. You give 
it the info (ie ip address) every time you connect and it updates it's 
records..... cool stuff.

Go look up http://www.dyndns.org/ and click on Dynamic DNS under Services on the 
right.

Cheers
Peter Arnold

> 
> Peter J Arnold wrote:
> > Looking at this from a completely different perspective; Why don't you take 
a
> > look at dyndns. You can assign a dnsname to a dynamic ip such that every 
time
> > you dial in, the appropriate code is run in your ip-up script which assigns 
your
> > dynamic ip to your dns name. That way you can ping 
yourfavouritename.dyndns.org
> > and get the ip address everytime..... There are scripts for various 
platforms
> > and works fine for me on solaris 2.6, pppd and uq dial in
> 
> Of course, this is the ideal, but you need a server which is permanently
> connected that you can set this up on.  Personally I'm not in a position
> to do this ATM.
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Paul
> 
> Paul Gearon
> gearon at computer.org
> 
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