Re: dynamic dns
Matthias Andree <[email protected]>
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Am 27.12.2011 03:15, schrieb John A. Wallace: > Is there any problem that I should consider before configuring Leafnode for > public access by others on the internet while I use an account at DynDNS for > my dynamic IP address, which only seldom changes? Thanks. The only possible concern is clients posting to your server right after your address has changed. If your IP address changes, somebody else gets your former IP address and also runs an NNTP server, and for the while the clients still connect to the old IP (because the caches of the IP haven't yet expired, they typically expire within minutes for dynamic IP addresses), their postings might end up on the wrong server, or they might be confused by not finding expected newsgroups, or newsgroups have different low/high article numbers. Also consider DynDNS pricing and business policies. These have changed (become more and more limited over time) so as to move people on paid plans. There are alternatives to DynDNS though.