Re: dynamic dns IP assignment from behind router

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Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 23:00:00 -0400
To: Matt Price <matt.price@utoronto.ca>

Matt Price wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm trying to get a dynamic dns client working on my home machines.
> The home connection is dsl (bell sympatico in Canada), and works fine,
> but the IP seems to be changing more often nowadays than it used to.
> I've set up a little network between my office and my home, so it's
> somewhat important for me to have some way of knowing what my home IP
> is when I'm at work... dynamic dns seems to be the answer.
>
> At home, 3 computers (1 debian desktop, one debian laptop, one windoze
> xp laptop) sit behind an SMC Barricade router. IP assignment on this
> intranet seems to work fine, and I only mention it b/c I suspect the
> router plays into some of my difficulties (see below).
>
> So I went and got an account at dyndns.org (mmtprice.dyndns.org). Set
> up through their web interface works without a hitch, and I'm able to
> change the IP address assigned to the domain name instantaneously on
> the web site. I verified this from a couple of different computers
> using ping.
>
> Unfortunately, though, I haven't yet been able to get any of the
> dynamic dns clients available in debian to actually remap the hostname
> correctly. I've tried and failed with both ddclient and ipcheck,
> leading me to wonder whether (a) I'm missing some basic point, or (b)
> there's some serious problem with my setup.
>
> -- neither script seems to be able to interact well with my router,
> though both have switches that are meant to get IP data from the SMC router.
>
> -- so I've resorted to using "checkip.dyndns.org" to figure out what
> my IP address is.
>

I've been using this solution with ipcheck for a year now and it's worked
very well.

Start with lots of debugging and you should be able to figure it out.

I never tried the ddclient and now that I think of it, I never used any .deb
packages. These packages are small, stable and easy to install so I guess I
just grabbed them from the dyndns.org website.

but I do know I used ipcheck.

I've since replaced all these worries with a "smoothie" (www.smoothwall.org)
and it works great.

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