[Westwales] no-ip, no-clue

[Dan Ros]

> It installed painlessly and registered my current IP address.  I then
> reset the router to force a change of IP, and rebooted the server to
> check if it did what it said on the tin, and it doesn't :-(

I don't know about no-ip, but in the past when I haven't had a static ip
address to use, I used dyndns (www.dyndns,org) - I found it to be
excellent and very easy to set up. It's a voluntary organisation and it's
protocols are completely open which means that there are a few different
clients to try if one isn't working for you.

dan at zinc:~$ apt-cache search dyndns
ddclient - Update dynamic IP address at DynDNS.org
ddns3-client - Issues dynamic DNS v3 requests
ez-ipupdate - client for most dynamic DNS services
ipcheck - Dyndns.org client to register your dynamic IP address

ddclient worked nicely for me, I think.