Prestige 304 Broadband Sharing Gateway with 4-Port Switch

Chapter 5

The Advanced Screens

This chapter provides information on the Advanced screens in the web configurator.

5.1The System Screen

This section briefly describes the tabs General, DDNS and Password in the system screen.

5.1.1 General Setup

Refer to section 4.1.1.

5.1.2 Dynamic DNS

Dynamic DNS allows you to update your current dynamic IP address with one or many dynamic DNS services so that anyone can contact you (in NetMeeting, CU-SeeMe, etc.). You can also access your FTP server or Web site on your own computer using a DNS-like address (for istance, myhost.dhs.org, where myhost is a name of your choice) which will never change instead of using an IP address that changes each time you reconnect. Your friends or relatives will always be able to call you even if they don't know your IP address.

First of all, you need to have registered a dynamic DNS account with www.dyndns.org. This is for people with a dynamic IP from their ISP or DHCP server that would still like to have a DNS name. The Dynamic DNS Client service provider will give you a password or key. The Prestige, at the time of writing, supports www.dyndns.org clients.

DYNDNS Wildcard

Enabling the wildcard feature for your host causes *.yourhost.dyndns.org to be aliased to the same IP address as yourhost.dyndns.org. This feature is useful if you want to be able to use, for example, www.yourhost.dyndns.org and still reach your hostname.

If you have a private WAN IP address, then you can not use Dynamic DNS.
5.1.3 Password

This screen allows you to change the Prestige password (recommended).

The Advanced Screens

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