dynamic dns at home?

[numberwhun at hotmail.com (Numberwhun *****)]

Could someone please tell me what TZO is?  I have not heard of it.  What is 
it and what does it do/provide? Thank you!

#jlk


>From: ccb at valinux.com
>To: Duane Morin <dmorin at morinfamily.com>
>CC: discuss at Blu.Org
>Subject: Re: dynamic dns at home?
>Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 09:58:35 -0400
>
>Don't know if this helps but I'm a TZO user and here's how I'm
>configured.
>
>   cable ---> cable modem ---> SMC router ---> mail/web host
>			         |
>				 +--->
>				 +--->  wireless hosts (clients)
>				 +--->
>
>The SMC has the public address on DHCP lease from RCN.  The inside
>interface for my SMC is the default - 192.168.13.254.
>
>My mail/web host has a fixed address (192.168.123.2) which is mapped
>to an internal name (bbox.memecycle.com) with a local hosts file.  The
>SMC is configured to port-forward a small number of ports to bbox and
>drop everything else.  bbox runs the TZO update script which keeps
>"memecycle.com" mapped to the currently leased RCN IP address.
>
>The SMC allows me to segment my address space into fixed address and
>DHCP floating address spaces.  So it was a no brainer, .1 - .127 are
>fixed and .128 - .253 float.  The machines with wireless cards have
>floating adresses.
>
>The network is small - at most 3 wired ports, 3 wireless cards and the
>router.  I have a 3-line hosts file maintained at bbox that provides
>localhost, bbox and the SMC.  Practically speaking if I need to use
>the network to move things into the wireless boxes, I pull.  If I
>really need to get at one of the DHCP'd machines, I use its IP
>address.  If it gets to be a drag I drop in a hosts entry and give the
>machine a fixed address for a while.
>
>If you're using Linux as your router and DHCP server, give your mail
>machine a fixed address, setup ipchains/iptables port forwarding to
>your mail machine from outside.  If you want to bang on your mail
>machine using the inside address, propogate a hosts file to the other
>boxes or get used to typing the IP address.
>
>Running your own DNS for a 3-node network is overkill.
>
>
>ccb
>
>
>
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