Prestige 324 Intelligent Broadband Sharing Gateway

Table 5-4 Configure Dynamic DNS Menu Fields

FIELD

DESCRIPTION

EXAMPLE

 

 

 

Enable Wildcard

Your Prestige supports DYNDNS Wildcard. Press [SPACE BAR]

No

 

and then [ENTER] to select Yes or No This field is N/A when

 

 

you choose DDNS client as your service provider.

 

 

 

 

Offline

This field is only available when CustomDNS is selected in the

Yes

 

DDNS Type field. Press [SPACE BAR] and then [ENTER] to

 

 

select Yes. When Yes is selected, http://www.dyndns.org/traffic

 

 

is redirected to a URL that you have previously specified (see

 

 

www.dyndns.org for details).

 

 

 

 

Edit Update IP Address:

You can select Yes in either the Use Server Detected IP field (recommended) or the User Specified IP Addr field, but not both.

With the Use Server Detected IP and User Specified IP Addr fields both set to No, the DDNS server automatically updates the IP address of the host name(s) with the Prestige’s WAN IP address.

DDNS does not work with a private IP address. When both fields are set to No, the Prestige must have a public WAN IP address in order for DDNS to work.

 

Press [SPACE BAR] to select Yes and then press [ENTER] to

Yes

 

have the DDNS server automatically update the IP address of

 

Use Server

the host name(s) with the public IP address that the Prestige

 

Detected IP

uses or is behind.

 

 

You can set this field to Yes whether the IP address is public or

 

 

private, static or dynamic.

 

 

 

 

 

Press [SPACE BAR] to select Yes and then press [ENTER] to

No

User Specified IP

update the IP address of the host name(s) to the IP address

 

specified below.

 

Addr

Only select Yes if the Prestige uses or is behind a static public

 

 

 

 

IP address.

 

 

 

 

IP Addr

Enter the static public IP address if you select Yes in the User

N/A

Specified IP Addr field.

 

 

 

When you have completed this menu, press [ENTER] at the prompt “Press ENTER to Confirm…” to save your configuration, or press [ESC] at any time to cancel.

The IP address will be updated when you reconfigure menu 1 or perform DHCP client renewal. If you have a private WAN IP address, then you cannot use Dynamic DNS.

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