8.10. Living with a Dynamic IP

Find a provider for free DNS service from http://www.thefreecountry.com/webmaster/freedns.shtml and register a hostname.

This example uses http://dyndns.org.

# cat /usr/local/etc/ddclient.conf | grep -v "^#"
daemon=300                                      # check every 300 seconds
syslog=yes                                      # log update msgs to syslog
mail=root                                       # mail update msgs to root
pid=/var/run/ddclient.pid                       # record PID in file.
use=web, web=checkip.dyndns.org/, web-skip='IP Address' # found after IP Address

login=<yourloginname>                             # default login
password=<yourpassword>                           # default password

server=members.dyndns.org,             \
protocol=dyndns2                       \
myfreebsd.homeunix.net
treefort.homeunix.net
drwho.homeunix.net