[Eug-lug] OT: Looking for suggestions for broadband (in Eugene)

[Mike Cherba]

Actually,  in this case, dyndns is a company www.dyndns.com
who provide free DNS service for people using subdomains from one of the
ones they own, for example, my server usually lives at
swordgeek.dyndns.org  (it is down right now so don't bother trying to
conect.)  Dyndns also has hooks to handle automatically updating the DNS
record if your External address gets changed when your DHCP lease
expires.  They make their money on selling other DNS services and Mail
record management and such.
			-Mike



On Sat, 2007-08-11 at 07:26, Bill Barry wrote:
> On 8/10/07, Jason Dommasch <jdommaroma at gmail.com> wrote:
>         I was kind of hoping to learn about classic DNS, because
>         that's what
>         most of the internet uses (I assume).  I don't know enough
>         about
>         DYNDNS to know how different it is.
>         
> 
> Dynamic DNS is very much the same as classic/static DNS. The domain
> name and the ip address are stored in an A record on a nameserver (and
> the address of the nameserver has to be given to your domain name
> registrar). With a static ip you just create this record once. With
> Dynamic DNS you have to change the ip address in the A record
> everytime your service provider changes your ip address.  
> Everydns.net provides a very reliable free DNS service. They also
> provide an easy way of updating your ip address for a dynamic dns
> setup.
> 
> Bill Barry
> 
> 
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