[arm-allstar] Free DNS

[Doug Crompton]

Robert,

 I run it in my router. That is the best place to do it if you can. I am using a Buffalo router with ddwrt. See if your router allows you to set a ddns that is the place to do it.

If not you can run it with a cron script (example at the site with your info) like this :

4,34 * * * * sleep 15 ; wget -O - http://freedns.afraid.org/dynamic/update.php?fhegjkh53265h3hkjhafk3qj4hthas >> /tmp/freedns_Richboro_homenet_org.log 2>&1 &

This is not my code but is an example. They show it running at a fairly often interval which is their example. In most cases once a day would be adequate but what you really want to do is run one of the scripts that only updates their database if there is a change. The router option works that way but they also have script examples on the site to do it. They should work fine on the BBB or RPi2.

To start a script at boot add it to  /etc/rc.local   You would also want to have it run in the background so put  '&' at line end. Once you have it setup check the log to make sure it is working.

73 Doug
WA3DSP
http://www.crompton.com/hamradio


Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2015 10:39:59 -0400
From: N1XBM at amsat.org
To: arm-allstar at hamvoip.org
Subject: [arm-allstar] Free DNS

Can anyone help me in selecting a client to run on my BBB. I want to use freedns.afraid.org I figured my BBB is already on at home why not run the client on that to update my IP. I just want to make sure I select something that will not take an act of Congress to work on my BBB. It seems most all of the Unix ones will work. I'm just not sure if one is better suited for the BBB.
N1XBM

Apparare Scientor

Paratus Communicare

Allstar Node # 27086, 41540, 41812

    

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