Quote Originally Posted by Harry Kuhman
Quote Originally Posted by gowator
I use dynamicdns.org
I have no complaints (and its FREE) but equally friends use no-ip.com and have no complaints....
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Your router might actually have a dnyamicdns setup service, my dead Belkin did!!!
If not you just need to download a client,
Im using ddnsclient (linked from the dynamicdns.org pages)
however it was just the foirst one I tried!!!
It works .... what else can I say!!!
Since you already use one of these servces I'm hoping you can give me a little information on them. I'm not using a Belkin router (mine is crap and is gathering dust), my SMC router sems to only support the paid tzo.com service. My question is, if I use a client behind a NAT router, how does it know when the IP address changes (the IP address of the box it is on will still be a static 192.168.x.x address) so that it knows to update the server (I'm assuming it doesn't have to determine what the new IP address is, since that will end up being in the snt packet after it passes through the NAT router.). Or does it just simply send a packet every x minutes, and let the server decide if the IP address has changed? I would download and try to learn this from the dynamicdns.org site, but I haven't been able to get a response from it all day (do you know of any problems with it?).
http://www.dyndns.org/ I believe is the site you are looking for and AFAIK you run a client on your machine that goes out and updates the dyndns.org record with your new IP when it changes.