Re: [PLUG] dyndns

[gyoza@comcast.net]

Pat Regan wrote:

> gyoza@comcast.net wrote:
>  
>
> > Isn't it only necessary for the script to be run from behind the 
> > firewall, so that the remote server see the public IP of your Internet 
> > connection?
> >    
>
> How is one of the internal machines going to know if the IP address
> changed?  If you run your update via cron it will either be laggy, or
> inefficient.
>  
Yeah, it would be inefficient, but the computer on the inside network 
could determine if the public IP of the router has changed, then update 
DynDNS.  IP changes should happen so infrequently that updates shouldn't 
be that time critical.
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