I'm looking to host a small website on my cable connection. From what I've learned recently, there are some router models out there that support automatic updating of the IP number to a dyndns type of service without having to run a script or other program on the server.

Questions:
Does anyone own a router that has this capability? That is the brand/model? Are you happy with it? If not, what do you wish you had purchased instead?

Thanks in advance,
Matt

http://zoneedit.com ?

You run the software on your PC and it updates to the zoneedit nameservers when your IP changes.

Or is this not what you are after?

I don't know how you could do the same with a router and a dynamic IP mind

Not really. I'd like to avoid running software on the computer, if possible. A friend of mine has a Netgear router (MR314) that supports Dynamic DNS. What happens is that the router talks to dyndns (I assume you just have to enter account information and the IP) and updates the IP number when it changes.

So that's what I'm looking for, other brands/models of routers that do this. I have not been successful in finding this feature at Cisco, and Netgear doesn't mention the feature when I look at the description of the aforementioned router.

Anyone else?

Matt

I understand. I am not aware of any routers that will run with such dynamic DNS service myself but good luck finding one. :)

A lot of Netgear DSL routers worth with DynIP I believe.

some internics will do the dns for you, like ********.com

so you can just update your ip everytime it changes, it shouldent change too often

on my home cable connection i have had the same ip for over 6 months, my router will not let it go :D

Matt, the RT311 (Single port Router) supports DDNS, also the MR314, and both of those should run ya below 100 bucks depedning on where you look.

The field where the DDNS hostname goes (user.dyndns.tld) is only 64 charachters long so it will support about 4 hostnames (Out of the 5 hostnames dyndns offers for free.)

The update is faster than running a software client and is slick enough to deal with the 64 character limitation.

I've called Netgear, and barring a reduced permuation of the hostnames, you're stuck at 4 hostnames only.

Originally posted by ntwaddel
on my home cable connection i have had the same ip for over 6 months, my router will not let it go :D

What brand/model router do you have? :)

Matt

Don't cable modems tend to get a new IP only when they are turned off/reset or in rare circumstances when the ISP release and renew all the IP's?

Yes, but its a momentary thing.