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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.
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