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Re: Best software to transfer a single large file? said by DataDoc:I use the DynDns Updater. The latest version(4.1.5) has never missed a lick, whereas the previous version occasionally thought my local IP was the one to use. Is the update more reliable then using the router? |
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| said by bigyeah:Is the update more reliable then using the router? The difference is that the updater is dynamic, so if your IP changes, it updates automatically. The router would have to be edited by hand, wouldn't it?
FYI, I use a sub-domain of one of the free domains they offer. Since it's a "private" setup, all free is good, and the domain name doesn't matter to me.
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| The difference is that the updater is dynamic, so if your IP changes, it updates automatically. The router would have to be edited by hand, wouldn't it?
FYI, I use a sub-domain of one of the free domains they offer. Since it's a "private" setup, all free is good, and the domain name doesn't matter to me.
After reading through some of the FAQ's on DynDNS's site before I setup HFS, there appeared to be two ways to use DynDNS. The first way, is the way you have it setup, which is using the DynDNS IP update utility. The other way, the way i have it setup, and please correct me if I am wrong, is by using a host name assigned to the external IP address, which is updated through the router itself rather than through software. I went into the router's configuration page, in my case I am using a Linksys router, and went to the DDNS (Dynamic DNS) tab and put the hostname that I registered with DynDNS into the hostname field. My IP has not changed since I set this up so I am not sure if I did this right. Can anyone else comment on my method and let me know if I did this correctly? |
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| The way you have it setup should work fine, if your WAN ip changes the router will update the info with DynDNS. |
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