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Getting started with dynamic DNS

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Linux.com; By Nathan Willis 		Mail this story
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Your ISP probably assigns your computer an IP address dynamically. It means one less thing for the both of you to think about, but it also puts you in a bind if you need to connect to your machine from the outside: you can't locate your PC amidst those of all the ISP's other customers. To overcome this obstacle, you can use dynamic DNS. Here's how to get started.

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techiem2 ·
Nice basic overview of ddns. I use the free subdomain option from no-ip.com myself. One of these days I should really setup my spare domain to point here too.

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