[geeks] Dynamic DNS linux update client

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 11:13:33AM -0800, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> Matthew Poertner wrote:
> >Anyone here use the Dynamic DNS service through dyndns.org and update
> >the IP address with a linux client?
> >
> >I just set up a video surveillance machine at my moms house.  It's
> >running on a Linux machine.  She has DSL with a dymanic IP and the
> >linux box is behind a firewall.  I'd like to be able to hop on that
> >machine every once in a while to clear out the false alarms.
> >
> >Anyone have a similar setup?  Any ideas on how to keep the IP address
> >updated automatically from the Linux box?
> 
> Simple.  ddclient.  It Just Works.

Just a note: my cable connection was so stable that the DYNDNS
hostname I had timed out (you have to log in every 90 days or so), and
the dyndns update client didn't renew, because there was no need to.

So, as a fallback, figure out how to configure it to avoid that.

--Patrick