[Dorset] Recommendation.
Couldn't make it last night; travelling back from Bristol was tiring and dangerous, so I didn't fancy another round. This morning I took delivery of my HomeHub2.0 router, bought for £25 new off e-bay(rrp£90). To my dismay, it doesn't support DynDNS services, so my web site was shot. Looking around I found a company called EvoHosting. EvoHosting starts at £2.50 a month, and for this you get a free, PROPER Domain name and things like an FTP server and support for SSL and commerce. My site took half an hour to set up. http://www.simonoriordan.com Simono -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wednesday 2009-12-02 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
Re: [Dorset] Recommendation.
Simon O'Riordan wrote: > Couldn't make it last night; travelling back from Bristol was tiring and > dangerous, so I didn't fancy another round. > This morning I took delivery of my HomeHub2.0 router, bought for £25 new off > e-bay(rrp£90). > To my dismay, it doesn't support DynDNS services, so my web site was shot. DynDNS doesn't necessarily require router support -- you can run a service on Linux or Windows to keep the dynamic address up to date. HTH Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2010-01-05 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
Re: [Dorset] Recommendation.
On 07/12/09 15:41, Chris Dennis wrote: > Simon O'Riordan wrote: >> Couldn't make it last night; travelling back from Bristol was tiring and >> dangerous, so I didn't fancy another round. >> This morning I took delivery of my HomeHub2.0 router, bought for £25 new off >> e-bay(rrp£90). >> To my dismay, it doesn't support DynDNS services, so my web site was shot. > > DynDNS doesn't necessarily require router support -- you can run a > service on Linux or Windows to keep the dynamic address up to date. In fact DynDNS prefer you not to use a router to avoid falling foul of their abuse T&C. From memory, for the free service you mustn't update more often than 28 days, but if you don't update every 30 days they assume the account's dormant - which leaves 29 days as the preferred interval! Cheers Tim -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2010-01-05 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
Re: [Dorset] Recommendation.
I have been aware of the client, but for the cost of the electricity a commercial account is better. I have a sensible domain name as well. Simono - Original Message - From: "Chris Dennis" To: "Dorset Linux User Group" Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 3:41 PM Subject: Re: [Dorset] Recommendation. Simon O'Riordan wrote: > Couldn't make it last night; travelling back from Bristol was tiring and > dangerous, so I didn't fancy another round. > This morning I took delivery of my HomeHub2.0 router, bought for £25 new > off e-bay(rrp£90). > To my dismay, it doesn't support DynDNS services, so my web site was shot. DynDNS doesn't necessarily require router support -- you can run a service on Linux or Windows to keep the dynamic address up to date. HTH Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2010-01-05 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2010-01-05 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
Re: [Dorset] Recommendation.
On Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:32:12 -, Simon O'Riordan wrote: > I have been aware of the client, but for the cost of the electricity a > commercial account is better. I have a sensible domain name as well. From this conversation I am getting the impression you are not running the client on the same machine as the web server. Is there any reason for this? Rob -- Using Opera M2: http://www.opera.com/mail/ -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2010-01-05 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
Re: [Dorset] Recommendation.
Tim Allen wrote: > On 07/12/09 15:41, Chris Dennis wrote: >> Simon O'Riordan wrote: >>> Couldn't make it last night; travelling back from Bristol was tiring and >>> dangerous, so I didn't fancy another round. >>> This morning I took delivery of my HomeHub2.0 router, bought for £25 new >>> off e-bay(rrp£90). >>> To my dismay, it doesn't support DynDNS services, so my web site was shot. >> DynDNS doesn't necessarily require router support -- you can run a >> service on Linux or Windows to keep the dynamic address up to date. > > In fact DynDNS prefer you not to use a router to avoid falling foul of > their abuse T&C. From memory, for the free service you mustn't update > more often than 28 days, That doesn't sound right. Where does it say that? cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2010-01-05 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
Re: [Dorset] Recommendation.
I'm not running any kind of server anymore. Previously I had a built-in DynDNS account with my Voyager 220 router. This was kindly provided by BT, and I didn't need either a static url or a client as the computer was a server, was never switched off and so DHCP only changed it once in three years. Port forwarding was very simple. Simono - Original Message - From: "Robert Bronsdon" To: "Dorset Linux User Group" Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 5:36 PM Subject: Re: [Dorset] Recommendation. > On Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:32:12 -, Simon O'Riordan > wrote: > >> I have been aware of the client, but for the cost of the electricity a >> commercial account is better. I have a sensible domain name as well. > > From this conversation I am getting the impression you are not running the > client on the same machine as the web server. Is there any reason for > this? > > Rob > > > -- > Using Opera M2: http://www.opera.com/mail/ > > -- > Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2010-01-05 20:00 > Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ > Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset > List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2010-01-05 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
Re: [Dorset] Recommendation.
On 07/12/09 18:51, Chris Dennis wrote: > Tim Allen wrote: >> On 07/12/09 15:41, Chris Dennis wrote: >>> Simon O'Riordan wrote: Couldn't make it last night; travelling back from Bristol was tiring and dangerous, so I didn't fancy another round. This morning I took delivery of my HomeHub2.0 router, bought for £25 new off e-bay(rrp£90). To my dismay, it doesn't support DynDNS services, so my web site was shot. >>> DynDNS doesn't necessarily require router support -- you can run a >>> service on Linux or Windows to keep the dynamic address up to date. >> In fact DynDNS prefer you not to use a router to avoid falling foul of >> their abuse T&C. From memory, for the free service you mustn't update >> more often than 28 days, > > That doesn't sound right. Where does it say that? Re preferred update clients over routers: http://www.dyndns.com/support/clients/ Re 28 day/30 day window: http://www.dyndns.com/services/dns/dyndns/readme.html#abuse Cheers Tim -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2010-01-05 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
Re: [Dorset] Recommendation.
On 10/12/09 11:38, Tim Allen wrote: > Re 28 day/30 day window: > > http://www.dyndns.com/services/dns/dyndns/readme.html#abuse > From reading that, my interpretation is that an "abusive" update is an update containing the same IP address. "Dozens" of these are allowed before an account is blocked, to allow for things like setting up new clients, etc. An update of the same IP address is allowed every 28 days in order to avoid the 30 day inactivity timeout. However, if your address changes more frequently than every 30 days you will not have any problems. -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2010-01-05 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
Re: [Dorset] Recommendation.
On 10/12/09 12:33, John Carlyle-Clarke wrote: > On 10/12/09 11:38, Tim Allen wrote: >> Re 28 day/30 day window: >> >> http://www.dyndns.com/services/dns/dyndns/readme.html#abuse >> > From reading that, my interpretation is that an "abusive" update is an > update containing the same IP address. "Dozens" of these are allowed > before an account is blocked, to allow for things like setting up new > clients, etc. An update of the same IP address is allowed every 28 days > in order to avoid the 30 day inactivity timeout. However, if your > address changes more frequently than every 30 days you will not have any > problems. > > Yes, obviously being unable to update with a new IP address would make the service useless. Also, I agree that there has to be, and is, leeway on this - for a start I doubt the clients remember the last update across a machine reboot. Tim -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2010-01-05 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
Re: [Dorset] Recommendation.
John Carlyle-Clarke wrote: > On 10/12/09 11:38, Tim Allen wrote: >> Re 28 day/30 day window: >> >> http://www.dyndns.com/services/dns/dyndns/readme.html#abuse >> > From reading that, my interpretation is that an "abusive" update is an > update containing the same IP address. "Dozens" of these are allowed > before an account is blocked, to allow for things like setting up new > clients, etc. An update of the same IP address is allowed every 28 days > in order to avoid the 30 day inactivity timeout. However, if your > address changes more frequently than every 30 days you will not have any > problems. > > Thank you Tim and John. For some reason my little brain had got it all wrong: I was confusing ddclient's IP-checking frequency (typically every few minutes) with its DynDNS-updating frequency, which obviously only happens rarely, when the IP address changes. My DynDNS account hasn't expired and I don't think that the IP address has changed. Does that mean that ddclient is clever enough to automatically contact DynDNS every 28 days even if the IP address is the same? cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2010-01-05 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
Re: [Dorset] Recommendation.
On 10/12/09 15:07, Chris Dennis wrote: > > Thank you Tim and John. > > For some reason my little brain had got it all wrong: I was confusing > ddclient's IP-checking frequency (typically every few minutes) with its > DynDNS-updating frequency, which obviously only happens rarely, when the > IP address changes. > > My DynDNS account hasn't expired and I don't think that the IP address > has changed. Does that mean that ddclient is clever enough to > automatically contact DynDNS every 28 days even if the IP address is the > same? > I'm using inadyn and I have these two lines in the /etc/inadyn.conf file: update_period_sec 600 # Fair usage policy forced_update_period 2505600# 29 days (60x60x24x29 secs) ddclient should have something similar. Cheers Tim -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2010-01-05 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
