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Registered: 2007-02-27

Posts: 174

DynDNS + hosted + ddclient

Hey archers --

I like the ability of ddclient to automatically update my ip address on DynDNS.org's servers.  And it's a pity that my domain name company doesn't have a similar feature for my TLD names.  So . . . I'm wondering if, for my personal website, which resides on an Arch box at my house, if it's at all possible to use DynDNS as a go-between.

E.g., a request comes for my HTTP server at mydomain.com.  mydomain.com looks up mydomain.dyndns.org, which hits my server at home.  I think this could be accomplished via proxy settings but maybe there is an easier way?  I think this can be done by setting mydomain.com's DNS settings to DynDNS's, but this is the part I'm fuzzy on.

Thanks in advance!

-p

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brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

Posts: 3,742

Re: DynDNS + hosted + ddclient

A dynamic IP address in the chain will mess up DNS caching. So you really don't want to do it.

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Registered: 2007-02-27

Posts: 174

Re: DynDNS + hosted + ddclient

In theory, if I was feeling reckless/didn't care about caching -- how would I do it?

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