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[Hunter 9999 <mail AT hunter-9999.de>]

This sounds very beautiful.

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Hunter 9999

> Am 30.05.2014 um 20:50 schrieb Jeff Taylor <shdwdrgn AT sourpuss.net>:
> 
> For those that didn't hear, texnofobix has been busy with life and hasn't 
> had the time to invest in setting up the .dyn zone for dynamic dns entries. 
>  Since a lot of other code I have written recently applied directly to the 
> ddns setup, I thought I would take over the zone and try to get something 
> moving.
> 
> We should now be ready to start testing the new configuration.  You may log 
> in and register .dyn domains at http://reg.dyn/
> These domains will be very limited on what can be entered... You may put in 
> A, AAAA, TXT, and RP records only.  Near the top of the window you will see 
> a URI line for registering your IP address. Domain names may be between 
> 3-32 characters, and you may register up to 2 new domains every 7 days.
> 
> If you are not familiar with DDNS -- the idea is that if you have a 
> computer that changes IP often, but you want a dedicated hostname that you 
> can use to reach it, you use DDSN.  That computer sends a periodic signal 
> to a server (in this case it will be the API server) which determines the 
> current IP address and updates the information online.  If I set up 
> example.dyn to link to my home computer, then I could ping or ssh to 
> example.dyn and it would link back to my computer.  Note there would be 
> short periods of pointing to the old address when your IP changes as it 
> takes time for the DNS updates to propagate to all tier-1 servers.
> 
> The intended use is as follows:
> - On the computer whose IP you wish to track, create a scheduled job that 
> calls this URI (wget or curl would be typical).  It should be called at 
> least every time you boot your computer, and once a day to refresh the 
> data.  If your computer changes IP addresses frequently, you will want to 
> run this more often.  You do not need to save any output from calling the 
> URI, but if you paste it into a browser you will see some status info (FAIL 
> if your credentials are invalid, or your current IP address).
> - Renewing the IP will automatically renew registration of the domain name. 
>  As long as you keep using it, you will not need to manually renew.
> - DYN domains are only registered for 4 weeks (28 days).  If you stop 
> renewing your IP, you will receive a warning email 7 days before the domain 
> expires.  Either refresh your IP info again, or log in to http://reg.dyn/ 
> and manually renew the domain.
> 
> Let me know if there are any questions, or if you see any bugs in the 
> operation.
> 
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