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Questions tagged [dynamic-ip]

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server script that sends an email every time the global ip changes

I'm setting up a web server that won't have a static global IP. It will be at my parents house and I won't be able to SSH into it when the global IP changes. The global IP will change every time router is restarted which happens like once a month.…
Alvar
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How do I set up No-IP as a proper service?

There is an example service shell script in the download, but it seems limited and relies on killproc which doesn't exist by default on Ubuntu 16 LTS.
Walf
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ddclient with google domains dynamic DNS to ssh into my desktop

So I want to be able to SSH into my home desktop. I set up port forwarding on my router, and was able to ssh into my machine ssh alex@2601:647:4802:b000:e938:d8b5:6111:e0fb When I restart the machine, the IP address changes, so I'd like to set up…
Alex Lenail
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Restrict ddclient updates to home network

I already have ddclient 3.8.2 working with OpenDNS. I'm running it on my laptop. I may travel with my laptop, and so I don't want to update the IP if I'm not home. How do I restrict ddclient to update the IP only if I'm on my home network? This…
Asclepius
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How to set up FQDN with Dynamic IP?

Can I setup my www.example.com address when I have a dynamic external ip adress (no router) and if so whats needed to make it work? The server is already installed with Ubuntu Server 12.04.3 and LAMP packages and works. I would like to use a domain…
user212469
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find out external ip and use to access ssh server

I would like to scp some large files from my lubuntu laptop to windows desktop. The ip address retrieved with ip -a command however only allows me connect from the laptop to itself. Router or modem is Technicolor tg558v, provider Carrytel (probably…
Serge
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Why does my dynamic dns alias fail in local network?

I have a server and a laptop in my LAN. The LAN is connected to the internet via router. I forward port 22 to the server and have a dynamic DNS provider (namely "no-ip") alias my router's internet IP to the domain myserver.noip.org. When I'm outside…
con-f-use
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How to show the reserved leases that dhcp has on file?

I want to check on the reserved leases (called "fixed-address" in the config files) of my dhcpd. To get all the info about the free dynamic ips is no problem, but the reserved one that get written to a MAC address are not shown in any file that I…
KRAER
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Port redirection for a specific (dynamic) IP using iptables script

What I want: Incoming TCP and UDP connections on port 900 from the resolving IP address of myip.dyndns.org (dynamic IP) should redirect to port 5050 on the local machine. All other IP addresses should "remain" on port 900. I've read that iptables…
viriol
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Is there a way to pause ddclient?

I use ddclient to update my OpenDNS account for my home network (the router doesn't have this capability). Recently, I've been traveling and, at times, when my laptop joins another network it automatically updates that network's ip to my account…
Majal
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How to opendns on router with dynamic ip

OpenDNS is almost completely useless with a dynamic ip and most people have dynamic ip addresses. There isn't even a decent client for Linux to update your IP. There is a script you can install but it only seems to update on startup and all my…
Joshua Robison
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How to SSH to Ubuntu with dynamic IP

I want to be able to SSH to my home computer with lubuntu 18.04 from my tablet computer when I am not at home. I need this access to practice in programming when I cannot be in front of computer. I live at student apartment and ISP provides Ethernet…
vasilyv
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Own DynDNS on virtual server?

Is there any simple way to configure say an Apache web server to handle a subdomain say mysubdomain.example.com to forward dynamic IPs? I had troubles finding a good stepwise instruction on the Internet. The goal is basically to ping…
Socrates
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Get dynamic and static IPv6 address

I'm trying to make my Ubuntu 16.04.1 home server have (at least) two IPv6 addresses for its bonding interface of two physical network interfaces: A static local one from the fd:: range (for a Samba4 primary domain controller). A dynamic global one,…
Gunnar Arndt
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Postfix mail boundes due to dynamic IP

I am attempting to set up a send-only mail server on my ubuntu machine to send emails to one of my email accounts to notify me of jobs finishing. I followed this guide…
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