Title explains it all. My IP is dynamic now and I need a way to keep my clients from changing the ip for my teamspeak every time I restart my web.

http://www.dyndns.com/support/clients/ Will this help?

Thats the one

Now I just gotta figure out how to configure it to work with ports. Moar halp.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Apr 5 2009, 2:21 am by Dark_Marine.

There is also the service at http://www.no-ip.com/

Looking over features (as far as for free accounts), DynDNS does appear to have more features on free accounts. Most people probably don't even use the additional features that DynDNS has on their free accounts, though.

For someone with a relatively static IP address like me, No-IP can be useful for the fact that the amount of time without IP address updates that they will allow before they deactivate your free sub-domain is significantly longer. It is 60 days, compared with 35 days for DynDNS, according to posts I've read. No-IP also will send you an e-mail reminder 14 days before expiration with a simple link you can click to keep it active if no updates have been sent by the update client because of having the same IP for a while. This is just a simple link that doesn't update the IP, but instead just keeps the free sub-domain active for another 60 days. There is nothing special about the URL, so it would probably be easy to schedule accessing it around every ~47 days to make sure it stays active. Of course, if you opt for a paid account, then they pretty much are not going to expire on either as long as you are still paying.

I've been using No-IP partly for the reason stated above, but for someone whose IP address is for sure going to change one or more times a month DynDNS would for sure be fine and may even be more ideal if you IP address changes especially often, since you can configure how long the DNS entry is allowed to be cached by DNS servers.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Apr 6 2009, 4:41 pm by ShadowFlare.

So far it doesnt matter which service I use, I still need to figure out how to make 66.156.70.12:8767 (My old IP that I somehow remembered + Teamspeak Port, too bad Im dynamic now) into a Dyndns or no-ip and use a port.

First of all, you need to register an account on one of those services (or both if your really want to ). After that, you need to create a sub-domain that will point to your IP address. For example, I have a sub-domain of sfrealm.hopto.org on No-IP's service. After that, install the update client for the chosen service and set it up to automatically update the IP address of your sub-domain.

With that configured, instead of using 66.156.70.12:8767, your server's users would use something like yoursubdomain.domainname:8767 (replacing yoursubdomain.domainname with whatever sub-domain you registered).

Well when I tried that (DMTS2.dyndns.org:8767) it didnt work. Any ideas?

Edit: Then it did. Thank you all, youve been more then helpful in my time of need ;D

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Apr 7 2009, 4:03 am by Dark_Marine.

dydns does this as well. I don't even use it anymore but I keep it registered just because it is so easy to just click that link every month.

How soon do they send the reminder, and is the time from the last update until expiration still 35 days?