[Novalug] how to ssh into a computer

John Holland jholland@vin-dit.org
Thu Oct 31 18:48:22 EDT 2013


I have to correct this, I tried to find the link to their free service
and they don't have it anymore, I think they want $25 a year now.
I guess I have been grandfathered in.

Here's a list of other providers of DDNS (including dyndns) some of
which are free.

http://dnslookup.me/dynamic-dns/



On 10/31/2013 06:38 PM, John Holland wrote:
> You might want to set up dyndns. They have a free* service that gives
> you a xyz.dyndns.org domain pointing at your IP address. There are tools
> to run on your box that determine your current IP and log into dyndns
> and update it. That way you can ssh into xyz.dyndns.org instead of
> keeping track of IP address. The router I'm using has it built in, it's
> an option on a page in the setup to tell it your domain and
> userid/password. If you don't have that, there are perl scripts and
> packages for distributions that will automatically keep it up to date.
> It's not hard to setup and then it just works (at least it has for me
> for a while)
>
>
> * don't let their web site steer you towards paying,you can do this for free
>
> www.dyndns.org
>
>
>
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