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DynDNS and ddclient: access your Linux from anywhere

Posted by linuxaria on · 4 comments
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Accessing your home computer (I’ll call it server on this article) from a remote location (that I’ll call client) outside the local network, can be very interesting, for example, listening to streaming music played by MPD, managing downloads in the bittorrent client Transmission through its web interface, controlling the machine via SSH … However, before accessing your server remotely, you must know the “address” or IP (Internet Protocol address), but generally at home they are provided dynamically, through the Internet Service Provider, so it’s not so easy to know the IP of your home server. We will see how to automatically update the DNS name on a domain name server (DynDNS) with the current IP address of the server thanks to ddclient.

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Comments (4)

jdixon ·
Noip offers free accounts without the hassles dyndns gives you.
smallboxadmin ·
DynDNS no longer has free accounts, only paid accounts. I don't know if that qualifies as "hassles", I do have a purchased account after using their free service. noip.com is the place to go for free personal accounts now.
jdixon ·
> DynDNS no longer has free accounts,

Right. However, my understanding was that if you already had a free account you could keep it, but that you had to login every month to keep it active.

I had an account with them, but they deactivated it on me.

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