Topic: TZO, DYNDNS, YI... which one to choose?

[Mahmood Al-Yousif]

Hello all,

I have *at last* have gotten the Alcatel SpeedTouch Pro to work with e-Smith. (I have discovered that you MUST set it as a DHCP server - from http://10.0.0.138 initially) and set eth1 on e-Server to have a static DNS, then change that to PPPoE!! - now it works.

My question now is, which dynamic dns service is recommended here? I have seen some talk about TZO, some about DYDNS.com/org. It seems to me that the majority uses TZO?

How do you rate these services and which one should I go with?

Please also let me know if I have to run the service's own .pl files on cron to get it to work, or are these scripts built into e-Smith (as the config is precoded for the 4 services above?)

I would appreciate your comments (hopefully I'll get a quick reply for this one!) so that I can commit to the service.

Please send me any comments you have even if negative, but I would rather base my decision on experience rather than regret it later...

regards
Mahmood

[Luke Drumm]

I can't speak for the others, but DynDNS.org is my personal pick.
It offers both dynamic and static DNS services for free and subdomain DNS stuff if you donate goods/cash etc.

The other bonus that DynDNS tend to offer over some of the others is that fact their a proper 24x7 company (as opposed to a guy in his garage with a cable connection and a DNS server ).

Regards,
Luke

[Alec Norek]

Try www.dns2go.com. Their linux client works straight out of the box. Read about it at http://www.dns2go.com/Linux_Client/

[Mahmood Al-Yousif]

Thanx Alec,

Much appreciate your suggestion. I'll check it out and take it further. I will give DYNDNS a go for a few days to see how their service stack up and go from there.

regards
Mahmood

[Mahmood Al-Yousif]

Thanx for the suggestion Luke. I have registered a couple of domains with them and will give them a few days to see how everything works.

I'll report my experiences here for the benefit of others.

regards
Mahmood