From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 4 16:31:36 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 9237737B400 for ; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 16:31:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.halplant.com (ip68-100-145-31.nv.nv.cox.net [68.100.145.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B58F543E09 for ; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 16:31:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from A.J.Caines@halplant.com) Received: by mail.halplant.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 3CC041F7; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 19:31:32 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 19:31:32 -0400 From: Andrew J Caines To: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: Dynamic DNS Client experiences? Message-ID: <20020704233132.GR10927@hal9000.halplant.com> Reply-To: Andrew J Caines Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD-Questions References: <20020704055534.T20112-100000@small.pukruppa.de> <20020704100946.S97579-100000@seven.slakin.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020704100946.S97579-100000@seven.slakin.net> Organization: H.A.L. Plant X-PGP-Fingerprint: C59A 2F74 1139 9432 B457 0B61 DDF2 AA61 67C3 18A1 X-Powered-by: FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE X-URL: http://halplant.com:88/ Importance: Normal User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 For the record, you can add no-ip.com to the list of name providers for dynamic addresses. They offer free names in their own domains and for a price will host your domain for you and offer other services. They do suffer from the stupid "client for platform X" requirement, however they let you have the source code for the Linux client and have a page for getting it working with other platforms. Since I have it running, I suspect the OpenBSD instructions worked for FreeBSD too. Ha! I see there is a port for it. For this and other clients, take a look at... # cd /usr/ports/net ; make search key=dynamic -Andrew- -- _______________________________________________________________________ | -Andrew J. Caines- Unix Systems Engineer A.J.Caines@halplant.com | | "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary | | safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin, 1759 | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message