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Title: dyndns.org
Post by: ansentry on September 05, 2002, 04:36:10 AM

Running SME 5.1, dynamic IP and am using CustomDNS at  dyndns.org

Hosting small web site and using e-mail.

Connection using PPPOE.

All works fine except when my dynamic IP changes SME does not advise dyndns re my new IP address.

I have set the SME using "dyndns.org" option 4

Thanks in advance,

John A

Title: Re: dyndns.org
Post by: Dan Brown on September 05, 2002, 04:59:24 AM

SME probably tries to advise dyndns.org, but they aren't accepting it.  To verify this, go to the log file viewer and look for dyndns.org in /var/log/messages.

Probably what you need to do is edit /sbin/e-smith/dynamic-dns/dyndns.org and change this line:

system=dyndns\&hostname="$DOMAIN"\&myip="$IPADDR"\&wildcard=ON

to this:

system=custom\&hostname="$DOMAIN"\&myip="$IPADDR"\&wildcard=ON

Title: Re: dyndns.org
Post by: simpleone on September 05, 2002, 06:33:38 AM

What about if you are hosting both a dynamic and customer site on your system ?

Title: Re: dyndns.org
Post by: Dan Brown on September 05, 2002, 06:55:37 AM

Then the custom domains should just be set as CNAMEs (or aliases) to your dyndns domain, and you'd only need to update the dyndns one.  There really shouldn't be any need to separately update multiple domains.

Title: Re: dyndns.org
Post by: Mike Wainscott on September 05, 2002, 10:52:37 PM

Seems that as prevalent as the CUSTOM services at DYNDNS.ORG have become, that Mitel would add an option to the server configuration to take that into account.

Title: Re: dyndns.org
Post by: guck puppy on September 06, 2002, 09:48:29 AM

Yes.. in effect it's called ServiceLink :)

Title: Re: dyndns.org
Post by: Tom Veitch on September 06, 2002, 11:38:44 PM

The SME Dyndns setting do not work if you use any other domain name outher than thename.dyndns.org if you want it to work with other domain names first setup the host information at dyndns ie server.homelinux.com the edit the dyndns.org file in SME to show

domain$=server.homelinux.com

and now your server will update dyndns.org with your ip address
you must setup the rest of the dyndns system in SME as per nomal just make that change

Tom

Title: Re: dyndns.org
Post by: ansentry on September 12, 2002, 09:17:13 PM

Dan,

Thank you very much for your help, worked fine.

John A