Thanks for your reply Jim.  I stand to correct myself on my previous note,
after thinking about it, I cannot run the desktop client updater for no-ip,
because there's no way for the desktop client to know what my external IP
address is ;D so anyway, I guess I have to give up my DNS name in favor of
ez-ip. Any suggestions from anyone out there on recommendations for free
dynDNS providers for maximum compatibility? The reason I ask is I build lots
of firewalls like this, and am always testing new Linux and hardware-based
firewalls, and I would like to not have to end up switching DNS providers
again :)

Thanks
Joe 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Gifford [mailto:jim at giffords dot net] 
Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 1:42 PM
To: m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch
Subject: Re: [m0n0wall] no-ip use with Dynamic DNS updater

On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 11:10:24AM -0800, Joe wrote:
> Hi guys,
>  
> I use no-ip.com's dynamic DNS, and when I switched over to using M0n0Wall
> from Smoothwall, I found I was not able to use it! :-(   I know the name
of
> no-ip's update server, is there a way to make their service work with
> m0n0wall? I can of course use their update client instead, but I'd rather
> have my m0n0wall manage the update.
>  
> Thanks
> Joe
>  

I too was using no-ip quite happily.  I switched to using one of the ones
supported by ez-ipupdate instead.  I didn't have anyone by myself
depending on the name, so it wasn't a real issue for me.

I think the simplest way to get m0n0wall to support no-ip would be to get
the ez-ipupdate people to add support for it.

Another option might be to make your old no-ip address into a CNAME that
points to another dyndns address.  However, this requires upgrading to
the pay version of no-ip.

Manuel has been pretty clear (I think) about only wanting one dynamic dns
update client.

hope this helps,
jim

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