[KLUG Members] Looking for a new dynamic DNS

[Bruce Smith]

On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 13:44 -0800, Peter Buxton wrote:
> > Bruce Smith bruce at armintl.com wrote:
> >
> > I looked at dyndns.org, but they claim to block you for abuse if
> > you update your IP address more than once a month if your IP
> > hasn't changed.
> 
> Not quite true.

It actually says 28 days.  I rounded it off to "a month".

http://www.dyndns.com/support/abuse.html

> They use a Perl script called ddclient with a nice, easily customized rc
> file.
> 
> When they say they will block you for abuse, they mean _forcing_ an IP
> update when the IP is unchanged.

Right, they say you have to check to make sure it's changed before you
update it.  And you have to do it once every 28 days, no matter what, to
keep your account from expiring.

> I run ddclient once an hour. It taps dyndns.org for an echo to find its
> own external IP number, checks DNS to make sure it hasn't changed, then
> exits.
> 
> The default conf for ddclient _does_ force an update every two weeks,
> changed or not, so I'm not sure why you read that blurb.

Maybe they state "28 days" and don't enforce it quite that strictly?

 - BS