[geeks] Dynamic DNS linux update client

[Phil Stracchino]

Matthew Poertner wrote:
> Anyone here use the Dynamic DNS service through dyndns.org and update
> the IP address with a linux client?
> 
> I just set up a video surveillance machine at my moms house.  It's
> running on a Linux machine.  She has DSL with a dymanic IP and the
> linux box is behind a firewall.  I'd like to be able to hop on that
> machine every once in a while to clear out the false alarms.
> 
> Anyone have a similar setup?  Any ideas on how to keep the IP address
> updated automatically from the Linux box?

Simple.  ddclient.  It Just Works.

You can run it in various ways, including a daemon where it just watches 
the external interface and automatically sends an update any time the IP 
changes.

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