anyone use this service? I'm looking for a DDNS service and the only two supported by my router appear to be TZO.com and DynDNS.org.

however dyndns.org doesn't seem to support my own domain. You have to have yourdomain.theirdomain.com

How is TZO.com service? IS it reliable? Back in the day I used no-ip.com but this seems to be a much better solution.

12/11/2007 8:52:00 PM

how's this...

i have no-ip for my desktop/hamachi and dyndns for my router, both work well.

this is how i have it setup

desktop.mydomain.com points to my hamachi IP (which also uses no-ip)
laptop.mydomain.com points to my hamachi IP (which also uses no-ip)
router.mydomain.com points to my DDNS name

so basically just setup a CNAME for your domain to point to the DDNS name

i use no-ip to access my hamachi directly in case mydomain goes down.

yes, you can do this with one name but i'm horrible at remembering ports, so i have a unique name per PC, there are more efficient ways to do this i'm sure



[Edited on December 11, 2007 at 11:00 PM. Reason : clarifications]

12/11/2007 10:47:03 PM

why do you have no-ip.com and a ddns for your router? wouldn't having a DDNS service point to your router allow you to access any machine on your network?

12/11/2007 10:49:12 PM

i edited that, sorry that wasn't clear

and no i haven't used TZO.com, but it's not much different than the rest, they still charge you $59 to use your domain, when you can do this yourself if you already have webhosting by creating a CNAME record

[Edited on December 11, 2007 at 11:09 PM. Reason : .]

12/11/2007 11:02:10 PM

ah, ok thanks for the clarifications. Thought i was missing something

12/11/2007 11:09:40 PM

to be completely honest though, ALL my computers including work have hamachi on them, so i hardly ever use the DDNS for my PC's, but the DDNS I use to access router options is handy.

i would def. recommend using one service b/c it's easier to remember, and if you are good with remember what ports are what, then you CAN access multiple computers using port forwarding and ONE DDNS name

12/11/2007 11:12:10 PM

well I do have .mac and 'back to my mac' enabled. So I can access my mac's file structure and screen share. I'm mainly looking to use it for web hosting on a small scale.

12/11/2007 11:13:52 PM

yeah, hamachi ftw

12/12/2007 8:28:19 AM