Author: Simon Reap Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] dyndns service changes?
Adam Trickett wrote: > On Sunday 21 Oct 2007, Andy Random wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Does anybody else here use dyndns.com?
>>
>
> Yes.
>
> It's the only service ny NetGear DG834G supports, so I too use it
(though I actually chose it by chance, and set it up about five minutes
before I discovered that it was indeed the only one supported!). >> I got an email from them this weekend telling my account was about to
>> expire due to inactivity, which was something of a surprise as I've had
>> the same level of activity for most of the last 3 or 4 years.
>> I haven't had this particular email, but I only use their free dynamic
service. > I've had that in the past. Basically my dynamic IP didn't change much so they
> treated that as lack of activity. I just manually set it to something else
> then set it back again. All okay.
>
> My dad's cable modem address almost never changes, so I have
occasionally had such reminders - you just have to set it to the same
value again (no need to change away and back).