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Date:      Thu, 1 Aug 2002 12:49:02 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Jason P Holland <jholland@cs.selu.edu>
To:        Ken <ken@carnahan.ws>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Dynamic DNS issues
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.44.0208011245080.30803-100000@cs.selu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <00cb01c23980$fdb3eea0$2cc8010a@palacasino.com>

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Ken,
  if you go to dyndns.org, they have multiple clients to choose from that
can run on your freebsd system and poll the router for an external ip
address.  it is very likely your router is supported as dlink is a popular
brand.  here is the link for unix/linux clients

http://clients.dyndns.org/unix.php?service=custom

i use ddclient at home with a linksys router, it works wonderfully, and 
was easy to setup.  these of course, work with the dyndns service, but 
i'm sure others can be found, or these can be modified to suit your 
needs.  hope this helps

jason


> Hello all,
> 
> I have a DSL connection (Dynamic IP) that feeds my DLINK wireless
> router/firewall. I have my Freebsd box hardwired to the router and then I
> have a laptop and a windows box using wireless nics. Everything works great!
> Now I want to allow access to my web and ftp server on the Bsd box. I have
> my own domain name already and can use one of the dynamic dns hosting
> services. But how can I (automatically  of course), update my dynamic dns? I
> am unsure how to pull the wan ip from the router. The router is passing all
> requests on port 80 to my bsd box. But I need to find out my wan  ip to
> update the dns. I would like to maybe run a shell script or something get
> the wan ip and then update the dns. I have a script ot do the actual update,
> but any ideas on how to pull the wan ip? All I keep getting back is the lan
> ip (192.168.0.1)
> 
> Any thoughts or ideas from anybody ? This wouldn't be so bad but it seems
> that the dynamic ip is changed at odd intervals and pretty often. So it
> makes it a real pain to keep up with it manually.
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> Ken
> 
> 
> 
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