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    Opinions about Dynamic DNS

    On advice of my mate (who is a bit of a network specialist), i've set up a dynamic dns service through my netgear router (including a thing about wildcards - no idea! LOL) as a means to be able to easily host stuff like Teamspeak, and also hopefully allow me to reliably set up stuff like VNC for my mums & brothers computer to stop me having to drive over to Derby every other day when they want me to do something.

    I imagined that it would be quite complicated, but to be honest it was all done and dusted in 5 minutes (but havent been able to test all that much yet - but at least I still have internet access ).

    Do many other people do this?

    In particular I want to make sure i have done some noob thing like open myself up to easy invasion from hackers have I?
    I have 2 SPI firewall routers (its a long story) plus a software firewall. Not that i'm paranoid or anything....
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    I (used to, haven't bothered since i had to reinstall my server) have a ftp server set up on my server so i could connect from wherever I was and do stuff.

    This obviously needed DynDNS setting up on my router. If i did it again now, I wouldn't have to, as I have a static IP.

    It was fun getting it through my router, then through my Smoothwall
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    i use no-ip. and have done for many years and find it invaluble. its not compatible with my router but it comes with an application that updates the address when nesessary.

    ive got a static IP address therefore i should remeber my address. but ive got three links at work and seem to remember them more

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    Dynamic DNS can work OK but I prefer to have a static IP and remove the issue.
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    i use DynDNS. a static ip is better but my isp would charge ~&#163;5 for it. the wildcard is so that <anything>.yourdomain.com would work. i think anyway!

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