From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 1 10:49:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26B4437B406 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 10:49:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cs.selu.edu (cs.selu.edu [147.174.59.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED2A943E6A for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 10:49:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jholland@cs.selu.edu) Received: from localhost (jholland@localhost) by cs.selu.edu (8.11.6/8.11.2) with ESMTP id g71Hn2J30907; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 12:49:02 -0500 Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 12:49:02 -0500 (CDT) From: Jason P Holland To: Ken Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dynamic DNS issues In-Reply-To: <00cb01c23980$fdb3eea0$2cc8010a@palacasino.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 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 > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message