Re: Incorrect IP for Dynamic DNS clients

[Hugo Villeneuve <hugo_villeneuve@yahoo.com>]

On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 01:10:34AM +1100, Jason Allen wrote:
> 
> My O'BSD box is acting as a NAT/Firewall for internal LAN with the external
> side being cable modem on @Home network.
> 
> I'm trying to use either dd-up or ez-ipupdate clients for the dyndns.org
> service but both clients are incorrectly determining my external IP for
> reporting to the DNS service.  Both clients are the latest versions and just
> compiled tonight.
> 
> My DHCP allocated external IP is 203.164.5.x but an IP of 203.164.3.167 is
> being reported by the clients to dyndns.org and I can't see where or why the
> clients are obtaining this IP. It (203.164.3.167) doesn't appear anywhere
> within "ifconfig -a" and is 4 hops upstream from my IP as shown.....
> 

Would it be because @home use transparent web proxies. I didn't try
dyndns.org put I saw that it could be a potential problems on my 
dynamic dns web site.

My dynamic dns service has an alternate update web page where we can
specify an IP. And some of the clients can use it.

Of course, dyndns.org is probably the best place to look for answers.


Hugo Villeneuve

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