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[broadstairs]

Last year when DynDNS decided to close their free service they offered me a cheap first year contract which I took, now they want $30 a year. So I am looking for a new DDNS provider which hopefully is free and either does not have a 30 day update policy or provides a local updater which can be set to update every month.

Does anyone here use a DDNS provider with that facility?

Stuart

[roseway]

No-ip ( http://www.noip.com/ ) still offer a free service. I use them and I've found them entirely satisfactory.

[broadstairs]

No-ip ( http://www.noip.com/ ) still offer a free service. I use them and I've found them entirely satisfactory.

Yes I found them but could not find any automatic updater to get round the 30 day requirement to validate my IP.

Stuart

[roseway]

No, I think you have to do that manually. I used their free service for a couple of months, but I've since upgraded to the paid-for service.

[lloyd]

I use dnsexit.com, and not had any problems. However, I had to use a custom updater on my Draytek, and could see no way to update on my Billion NL.

[broadstairs]

I use dnsexit.com, and not had any problems. However, I had to use a custom updater on my Draytek, and could see no way to update on my Billion NL.

My problem is that I can update it on my ZyXEL VMG8924-B10A OK but it only does that AFAIK when the IP changes and as I have a quite reliable line it is often up for 50+ or even more days without a re-sync so no DDNS update is done. Most of these freebies require at least one update per 30 days hence needing a script of some sort to do this on a regular basis. DynDNS used to provide such a program with their free account.

Stuart

[kitz]

No, I think you have to do that manually. I used their free service for a couple of months, but I've since upgraded to the paid-for service.

Eric just a thought.   Had you thought about getting a static IP from Plusnet.  Its a one off cost of £5.   

With this then you can do quite a lot.  For example you could even set up a webserver/ftpserver at home and point a sub-domain to it.  eg set up  eric.[yourdomain].co.uk to your home PC/server.

[roseway]

Thanks for that suggestion. I hadn't thought of it, and it certainly does have some possibilities.