NETGEAR manual Configure Dynamic DNS, ProSafe Wireless-N 8-Port Gigabit VPN Firewall FVS318N

ProSafe Wireless-N 8-Port Gigabit VPN Firewall FVS318N

8.Click Apply to save your changes.

9.Click Test to evaluate your entries. The wireless VPN firewall attempts to make a connection according to the settings that you entered.

10.To verify the connection, click the Broadband Status option arrow in the upper right of the screen to display the Connection Status pop-up screen. (The following figure shows a PPPoE configuration; the IP addresses are not related to any other examples in this manual.)

Figure 15.

Note: If your ISP requires MAC authentication and another MAC address has been previously registered with your ISP, then you need to enter that address on the Broadband Advanced Options screen for the

WAN interface (see Configure Advanced WAN Options and Other

Tasks on page 50).

Configure Dynamic DNS

Dynamic DNS (DDNS) is an Internet service that allows devices with varying public IPv4 addresses to be located using Internet domain names. To use DDNS, you need to set up an account with a DDNS provider such as DynDNS.org, TZO.com, Oray.net, or 3322.org. (Links to DynDNS, TZO, Oray, and 3322 are provided for your convenience as option arrows on the DDNS configuration screens.) The wireless VPN firewall firmware includes software that notifies DDNS servers of changes in the WAN IP address so that the services running on this network can be accessed by others on the Internet.

If your network has a permanently assigned IP address, you can register a domain name and have that name linked with your IP address by public Domain Name Servers (DNS). However, if your Internet account uses a dynamically assigned IP address, you will not know in advance what your IP address will be, and the address can change frequently—hence, the need for a commercial DDNS service, which allows you to register an extension to its domain, and restores DNS requests for the resulting fully qualified domain name (FQDN) to your frequently changing IP address.

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