[X-Unix] dyndns to track your hardware (re: re: CL emailing)

[Juan Manuel Palacios]

	Hi Peter. I'm behind a NAT router (also does DHCP but I have it turned 
off --besides that's irrelevant for this discussion), and I have a 
dyndns account that perfectly matches the public IP my ISP assigns me 
to a hostname I can use anywhere in the world. Having private internal 
IPs clashes in no way with this setup, since the dyndns account gets 
updated with the public IP of the *external* NIC interface in case it 
changes, not with any of the internal IPs (the private ones).

	To achieve this you need, as you said, a tool to auto update the 
dyndns database, a client, which you can point to an 
account/user/interface-to-monitor. For the Mac a very famous one is 
http://www.dnsupdate.org; lately I've discovered that some SOHO NAT 
routers offer the dyndns client feature, but unfortunately mine 
doesn't. But that's not a problem, because DNSUpdate has kept my 
hostname rout-able for over two years already!

	Hope that's of help,...


		Juan


On Feb 7, 2004, at 1:05 PM, Peter Marreck wrote:

> On Feb 4, 2004, at 9:15 AM, James Bucanek wrote:
>
>> Personally, I'd suggest solving this problem by signing up for a free 
>> dynam=
>> ic domain service like <http://dyndns.org/>.  It will do exactly what 
>> you'r=
>> e talking about and avoids all of the mail configuration problems 
>> we've jus=
>> t been discussing.
>
> I thought of that. Unfortunately, I'm behind a NAT/DHCP router (and if 
> the laptop was stolen, it could conceivably be behind a router too) so 
> that solution won't work- I have an intranet IP and it won't help me 
> if some tool on my laptop which updates dyndns causes 
> petespowerbook.dyndns.org to point to 192.168.whatever... (Unless the 
> tools that auto-update your dyndns information somehow use the 
> internet-facing IP from the router? Last time I checked, they don't.)
>
> Regarding someone mentioning just purchasing a tool to help your 
> laptop report its location... Hey, I'm kind of a tinkerer, I don't 
> think that creating a home-grown solution that works is beyond my 
> means ;) Plus, I'm learning some Perl, some shell, and some SMTP at 
> the same time... and ultimately, that's why I'm on this mailing list. 
> ;)
>
> -peter
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