Anybody used no-ip.com?

[35mph]

My PRIMARY question is how to notify remote Terminal Services users if our dynamic IP address has changed, so if you have ideas on that, please advise.

One solution I've been referred to is

http://www.no-ip.com,

a site where you can assign your current IP address to a new domain name, and users can simply connect using that name instead of an IP address.

Furthermore, there is a free software utility called the no-ip DUC (dynamic update utility), that will automaticaally note when the WAN IP address changes and will reassign it to the domain name the user has chosen.

Here's my concern: this DUC gets pretty good reviews on download.com, but some users have mentioned that it introduces spyware.

Has anyone here had experience with no-ip.com, and specifically the DUC? Good? Bad?

 

[Serbtastic]

I don't have any personal experience with no-ip.com as I use dyndns.org for dynamic DNS service. My router has a built in client and it always updates my dyndns.org hostname to the current public IP.

I've been using it for over 3 years without a problem.

 

[35mph]

thanks for the info... we're using a Linksys BEFSR41 router... I called LinkSys to ask about such a piece of software, and they acted like they barely knew what I was talking about.

Are you using a LinkSys router? Think such a thing exists for LinkSys?

 

[Serbtastic]

I'm using a Netgear router. The linksys routers don't support the feature natively, but there are a number of dyndns clients available that WON'T load spyware onto your pc. Have a look at

http://www.dyndns.org/services/dyndns/clients.html

for available clients.

 

[35mph]

Thanks, friends... dyndns seems to be the way to go. 'preciate your help.

 

[msbald]

My 2 cents.
DynDns.org ROCKS. I paid them the $9.95 upgrade just because their service was so flawless and now have 25 some odd terminals / routers etc. registered there (I think you need the upgrade to carry more than 5 but do it anyway because GREAT stuff like this should be supported).

 

[Matjosjen]

I use No-IP.com for my server with a public IP just for DNS resolution. (was usng it with port forwarding on my router, but needed some static ip's anyway) and have not loaded their applet and it works very well.

 

[DTSMAN]

I use noip all the time. My company has a site that we pay a fee for and then we download the freeware part onto the customers computers. We use pcanywhere to access our customers, so after we register their name to our list, we just put in customername.no-ip.info into pcanywhere and it finds them instantly.

Bo

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