Text 5950, 37 rader
Skriven 2013-01-23 19:09:31 av Nicholas Boel (17150.fidonews)
   Kommentar till text 5937 av mark lewis (1:3634/12.42)
Ärende: Z4
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  Re: Z4
  By: mark lewis to Nicholas Boel on Wed Jan 23 2013 11:54 am

 NB>> DNS updaters run only on intervals you set them to do.

 ML> no sir, sorry... when i load my IP updater, it stays running until i shut
 ML> down the machine or explicitly cause it to exit... it is a daemon and does
 ML> its job quite silently and when needed...

So you're referring to one updater, while I'm referring to many different ways
of updating. I personally use a script that grabs my IP address and sends it to
my dns service. I could also use my router's dyndns updater feature if I wanted
to, which checks every 10 minutes (dd-wrt). There's many ways to do it.

 NB>> Personally, I have dd-wrt do this for me, so I don't have to run 
 NB>> any "dns updaters". 

After re-reading that, that is false. I USED to have dd-wrt do it for me. Now
it's scripted and ran with a cron.

 ML> i used to use dyndns years ago... until they screwed me on my registered 
 ML> domains during one of their upgrade periods... so i found another service
 ML> that worked and actually offered a lot more capabilities... i used them
 ML> for a while and then started paying them for their services... i didn't
 ML> get any more than i already had but i didn't loose anything, either...

That sucks. I've actually had quite the opposite experience with them. One of
the head honchos over there actually use to be a sysop. He stopped by my BBS
and told me that they were ditching *ath.cx addresses and also changing the way
their free services worked -- but since I was using their service for a BBS he
upgraded me to VIP at no charge. :)

Regards,
Nick

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