From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 21 11:54:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pen.homeip.net (72-17-237-24-cable.juneau.ak.net [24.237.17.72]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BF3237B41F for ; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 11:54:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by pen.homeip.net (8.11.6/8.11.6/SuSE Linux 0.5) id g3LIsJR20108; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 10:54:19 -0800 Message-Id: <200204211854.g3LIsJR20108@pen.homeip.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: John Andersen Reply-To: jsa@pen.homeip.net To: limdorj@singnet.com.sg, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with hostname Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 10:54:19 -0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] References: <1019399288.3cc2cc78c2ad6@pike.singnet.com.sg> In-Reply-To: <1019399288.3cc2cc78c2ad6@pike.singnet.com.sg> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday 21 April 2002 06:28 am, Zhifu wrote: > Hi, I am a newbie. I am puzzled on how to configure a hostname to the > dynamic IP that I am assigned to in the network. I intend to use the BSD > box as a FTP server. I am using FreeBSD 4.4 Stable. Go here: http://www.dyndns.org/ Sign up for a resolvable name using one of the many domains they offer. Use that name as your FQDN of your freebsd box. Go to the clients section of that web site and download and make ez-ipupdate and compile it. Works well with freebsd. Each time you dynamically assigned ip changes, the tiny client updates the dns servers ad dyndns.org and you have a resolvable host name with a dynamic ip. Its really nice for home machines where buying a static is not cost justified. -- _________________________________________________ No I Don't Yahoo! And I'm getting pretty sick of being asked if I do. _________________________________________________ John Andersen / Juneau Alaska To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message