P314 Broadband Sharing Gateway with 4-Port Switch

choice) which will never change instead of using your 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.

To use this service, you must register with the Dynamic DNS client. The Dynamic DNS Client service provider will give you a password or key. The Prestige at the time of writing supports www.ddns.org and www.dyndns.org clients. You can apply to either of these clients for Dynamic DNS service.

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.

2.7.2 Configuring Dynamic DNS

To configure Dynamic DNS, go to Menu 1 – General Setup and press select Yes in the Configure Dynamic DNS field.

Pressing [Enter] takes you to Menu 1.1– Configure Dynamic DNS as shown next.

Menu 1.1 - Configure Dynamic DNS

Service Provider = WWW.DynDNS.ORG

Active= Yes

Host= me.ddns.org

EMAIL= mail@mailserver

User= username

Password= ******

Enable Wildcard= No

Press ENTER to confirm or ESC to cancel:

Figure 2-8 Configure Dynamic DNS

Follow the instructions in the next table to configure Dynamic DNS parameters.

 

 

Table 2-5

Configure Dynamic DNS Menu Fields

 

 

 

Field

 

Description

 

Example

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Service

Enter the name of your Dynamic DNS client.

 

www.ddns.org

 

 

Provider

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Active

Press [SPACE BAR] to toggle between Yes or No.

 

Yes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Host

Enter the domain name assigned to your Prestige by your

 

me.ddns.org

 

 

 

Dynamic DNS provider.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EMAIL

Enter your e-mail address.

 

mail@mailserver

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

User

Enter your user name.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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