No-ip.com through a broadband router (NAT)

Syldorian · n00b Joined: 14 Jan 2004 Posts: 31

Hi, I searched the boards for an answer to this, but I couldn't find exactly what I needed. I've got a no-ip.com account, and I need some way to update the IP from my public address. I was running an IPCop box before, so this wasn't a problem, but now I have a standalone Belkin router. I've seen lots of ways to grab the public IP from www.whatismyip.com, but I need some way to update no-ip's records with that information. Is there some simple way to do this from the command line, so I could set up a cronjob to keep it up-to-date?

I really appreciate any help. I wish I was better at scripting, so maybe I could do this myself.

Thanks for any replies.

orionrobots · Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 4:50 pm Post subject: ddclient

I use dyndns.org with DDclient - and I think it can be configured for other similar services.

AFAIK its in portage - emerge ddclient - fairly easy to set up.
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Syldorian · n00b Joined: 14 Jan 2004 Posts: 31

Thanks, orionrobots. I have a command that will send my public IP to standard out (from whatismyip.com). Do you know if it's possible to pipe that into ddclient? I wasn't able to get to ddclient's homepage to find out myself.

nobspangle · Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 9:50 am Post subject:

orionrobots · Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 9:12 am Post subject:

adsmith · Veteran Joined: 26 Sep 2004 Posts: 1386 Location: NC, USA

I have a setup like this with a LinkSys router and no-ip (tock.no-ip.org).

linksysmon (not in portage, but I can supply you with an ebuild), which watches the router through SNMP, catches IP changes of the DSL, and then it calls noip2update to do the DNS when the IP changes.

Syldorian · n00b Joined: 14 Jan 2004 Posts: 31

Hey, thanks everybody. I think I got it working. The noip-updater software seems to have a setting to check the public address on a NAT network, so I'm just using it.

I appreciate all the help.