[NTLUG:Discuss] IP-camera ~little off topic

[richard witt]

On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 8:00 PM, Andy Brown <delusionallinux at gmail.com> wrote:
> TWC will require you to be on a Business plan to get a static IP address.
> However there is a simple way around this and thats is to use a Dynamic IP
> address. When i had one setup I was using no-ip.com and had my DNS seutp to
> delusions.no-ip.com. The nice thing is there is a cron job that will run in
> the background checking to see if your IP address has change.
>
> This would be the solution I would reccomend.


I would suggest ddclient http://ddclient.sourceforge.net/ It works
with a couple of the different dynamic DNS services and many devices.
Its just a perl script and you setup the variables. It runs as a
daemon.