“This article will show you how to easily setup a free DNS service that will give your Mac computer a static hostname. There are a lot of possibilities you can use this for, as most of the Internet connections offer dynamic IP addresses. Having a dedicated hostname can make it easier to remotely connect to your computer and run any kind of server.”
http://www.everydns.net/ also works.
I’ve been using it for over a year now.
Seems like OSnews is posting more and more of these “filler” news stories. Dynamic DNS is nothing new, I was doing this on my Mac 5 years or more ago. Hardly news worthy at all.
It’s not really interesting to know that YOU already knew about this 5 years ago. OSNews doesn’t need to only feature the latest news, nothing wrong with some opinion, background and older newsstories.
Would have been nice if there would have been an XP/Linux/BSD tutorial included as well.
Seems like OSnews is posting more and more of these “filler” news stories. Dynamic DNS is nothing new, I was doing this on my Mac 5 years or more ago. Hardly news worthy at all.
I was performing advanced storable queries on BeOS way before Spotlight, Beagle, and all those other tools came around.
I should delete all stories on Spotlight, Beagle, and all those other tools.
Seriously now, not newsworthy to you does not mean it ain’t newsworthy to at least someone. If you don’t like the content, don’t comment/read it. If you don’t like too many stories, stop reading OSNews. As simple as that.
Well put. It would be nice if people would comment on articles on their merit rather than whether or not they happen to be interested in the topic.
To the OSNews Staff: Keep on posting these articles. Not all of us are experts in all areas of computing and they can lead us to areas we had not thought about.
Bill
I am truly; truly grateful for this article, because although I have been an OSNews.com reader for about a year now I don’t know about this type of software existed for the Mac platform. Had it not been ON (Old News) posted it would NOT be new news to me, I am truly grateful for this site and this post.
Actually, I’ve been pleasantly surprised with the quality of the stories today (overall), but my question is in Linux or OSX or any Unix is there a script I can use so that my DHCP client will automagically email me if my address changes? I guess I could just do a ipconfig query in a Bash or Ruby script and just check if the ip addresses don’t match.
One of the things I like about OS News is that they have these things called “Headlines”. You can read the headline and then decide whether to read the article or not depending on whether it is of interest to you.
For example if you had been “doing” dynamic DNS on your Mac for 5 years then you could check the headline and then decide “Hey, that’s an article about doing dynamic DNS on a Mac. I don’t think I need to read that as I know all about that already. Have done so for 5 years now.”
By now I am sure you get the idea that OSNews is read by a lot of people and not all of us have used this feature before. I enjoyed the article and found it to be very informative as well as nicely written. Most of us just skip over articles we are not interested in. I am happy for you that you have been in the know about this for five years. Perhaps if you had written an article about it four years ago more people would know about it.
Bill
had this for years built into the router. Pretty cool.
A word of warning, routers tend to be incompatible with the DynDNS protocol as over the years the protocol itself has changed. As always, your mileage may vary.
HOWTOs are not news. This story should be deleted.
That is your opinion and you are entitled to it. I liked the article and since I have not looked into this area the item “was” news to me.
Bill
It’s always interesting for someone. Maybe you are the “sysadmin” guy bored with this kind of stories. For newbies can be pretty nice to experimet with his/her new unix-alike box. Since when is OSNEWS only for advanced users?.
I’m actually looking for a generic DynDNS tool/utility for Mac OS X that allows you to use the DynDNS feature with another provider than DynDNS.org. So far, I haven’t come much further than a combination of cron and curl. Any ideas/suggestions dear fellow readers?
So far ddclient ( http://ddclient.sf.net ) seems to be my best bet.
Haha..
A comment from the originating site:
“Informative article – looks like DYNDNS will simplify my testing of a couple of file transfer protocol servers”
You can tell you have an awesome readerbase when they spell out things like FTP.
If you own a domain name (hardly expensive) Just set the A record to your IP address. Or add an A record for a subdomain and bind to your IP address. This is incredibly easy to do.
If you’re using HELM for example, go to domains, the domain in question, then DNS Zone Editor and add record. Enter a subdomain name you want, and your IP Address. Done. You can then browse to subdomain.mydomain.com as appropriate.
That’s a great idea with a big problem: the people using the various DynDNS services have DYNAMIC IP-addresses. I don’t know about you, but I for one don’t want to watch my IP as a hawk and update a DNS-entry every time it changes.
There are also domain name registrars who provie dynamic DNS service. I personally use namecheap.com, and it works fine. I guess you could also pay a fee to dyndns.org and they’ll allow you to use a custom domain name.
I have this for my AmigaOnes! I run my bbs using dyndns.org and apache server! telnet://yccafe.dyndns.org is my old cnet bbs running on my AmigaOne!
….because you can do this with any operating system.
I ran this on a Windows box for some time, even NAT’ed with dual machines behind a firewall/router, it worked great.
There are also services which will allow you to automatically update your IP when it changes, by running a system service which announces the IP periodically.
I just left a small utilitiy on my desktop that would ID my external IP when clicked. If I saw a change, I’d update it. My machine rarely changed, and for someone like me who just ran a webserver occasionally for family, it was great.
I thought that too until I read the story. It went into at least a little detail about the mac update client. And mac people like to feel special, so let them have it
(I have a pb)
such that hackers can find you.
Which is why you’d want to do this on a Mac and not an XP Boxen. 😐