Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: Setting up dynamic DNS on a home server

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Posted by Jonathan Ellis on
not enough detail... how many hops away from your server was the trace when it stopped? I know qwest likes to set you up with a NAT-ing router, at least before they got in bed with MSN; has that been set up?

(FWIW, carnage blender is hosted on a qwest residential dsl line, and they seem much more server-friendly than most. it's been a long time since I had a dynamic IP, though; it's just so much easier to find a real ISP that will take qwest's line and give you a static IP for it.)

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Posted by Jade Rubick on
Thanks for your help, Jonathan. It's been a rough ride. :)

I believe that is just a hop or two away from my server. When I traceroute from my server to that gateway, it looks like it doesn't return anything:

jade@mail jade]$ /usr/sbin/traceroute ptld-dsl-gw2.ptld.uswest.net
traceroute to ptld-dsl-gw2.ptld.uswest.net (216.161.52.2), 30 hops max, 38 bytepackets
 1  * * *
 2  * * *

So I guess that isn't very helpful. But it does worry me that if I telnet to ports 22, 25, or 993 at the address I'm currently at, I don't get any activity.

I guess this could be because my port forwarding from the router isn't working, but I don't really have any way of checking it that I can think of, besides what I'm doing.

Is there anybody out there using dynamic DNS on Qwest? Any other advice?