Dynamic DNS Updates

[MikeM]

On 12/27/2003 at 2:10 PM Gautam Gopalakrishnan wrote:

|On Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 05:59:49PM -0800, Evan Sayer wrote:
|> 	FreeBSD-
|> I would like to know how to make my server running 4.9 update my 
|> networks Dynamic Ip  address on my domains DNS servers.  My ip is 
|> always changing because it's dynamic, so a domain is essentially 
|> pointless unless i can get this up and running.  You could say i want 
|> my domain to function as though it were assigned to a Static IP.  I 
|> have been googleing for hours, and i can't understand any of it.  
|> Please be advised, i am somewhat new to FreeBSD.
|
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|You could sign up with a subdomain provider such as www.dyndns.org,
|www.no-ip.com, www.dhs.org, www.homedns.org, etc. They would have
|clients which update the ip address in their dns servers once it
|changes in your machine.
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Another provider of such service is www.zoneedit.com    They will do 5
domains for free.  I like the geographic and software diversity of their
name servers.