From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (account lgrosenthal HELO [192.168.200.13]) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTPSA id 2137785 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:35:42 -0500 Message-ID: <492818B8.106@2rosenthals.com> Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:35:36 -0500 Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.8.1.17) Gecko/20080925 MultiZilla/1.8.3.5g SeaMonkey/1.1.12 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List Subject: OT: DDNS client (was: Re: [OS2Wireless] DDNS client) References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, Jeff! On 11/22/08 12:05 am, Jeffrey Race thus wrote : > Is there such a thing as a software ap that runs on a PC which > can periodically report to a dynamic DNS service (e.g. at boot, > or every day, hour) in the same way as does a router's DDNS > function? If so could I have some pointers to one or ones that > work on eCS, Win and Linux? Also any cmts or gotchas. > Your first stop should be the support page for your DDNS provider. For DynDNS, you might want to check out http://www.dyndns.com/support/clients/ , for example. Recommendations for software I've actually run: Win32: Direct Update: http://www.directupdate.net/ (shareware; $25) good support; runs as a service; nice interface; stable Linux: ez-ipupdate: http://ez-ipupdate.com/ free; open source; not sure of license this is the updater used by Astaro Security Linux and Astaro Security Gateway devices inadyn: http://sourceforge.net/projects/inadyn/ free; open source; GPL fairly widespread use; doesn't support all DynDNS options, however (though it's great for the standard stuff) OS/2: inadyn: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/h-search.php?key=inadyn&pushbutton=Search the OS/2 port is based on inadyn 1.96 (latest version is 1.96.2) stable There are scads of others for a number of languages (Perl, Java, C, etc.). Search Hobbes, Sourceforge, and Google for "dynamic DNS updater" and you'll come up with tons of hits. I've used all of the above with good results. Cheers. -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------- Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC www.2rosenthals.com Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com Treasurer, Warpstock Corporation www.warpstock.org -------------------------------------------------------------