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3. NasDisk registration
2) DDNS Server setting
Customers who registered at www.nasdisk.com are only required to do DDNS Server setting. If you
have not registered, this procedure of DDNS server setting will not apply.
To get the DDNS service from www.nasdisk.com , you have to configure following two items.
① Host name to be used by NasDisk (Registering multiple host names is enabled.)
(ex : If Host name is Maverick, Domain name of NasDisk is maverick.nasdisk.com.)
② Domain name to be used by NasDisk (nasdisk.com and nasdisk.net are provided)
These two items precede all the DDNS service configuration procedure.
DDNS means Dynamic Domail Name Service.
The functional features and working principle of DDNS are as follow.
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DHCP-based Internet connection has not been able use HTTP or FTP server because IP
address of DHCP is subject to change everytime PC is connected to the Internet.
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DDNS is the new method for DHCP-based PC DDNS to set up HTTP, FTP or MAIL server just
as if its IP is static.
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To use DDNS service, you must register to the DDNS service and have DDNS-supportive
equipment and softwares.
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Connect the DDNS server to DDNS-supportive equipment by inserting the ID and Password of
the equipment.
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Then, user should connect to the DDNS-supportive equipment with the domain name
registered to DDNS server.
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DNS server having domain name is supposed to make query into the domain name
DDNS server that received the query from the other DNS, is to transmit the IP address for the
domain name..
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At this moment, DDNA server sends the unchanged IP because varied IP numeric value is
applied to DDNS server through the communication between DDNS server and DDNS-
supportive equipment.
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Then, user can connect to the DDNS-supportive equipment on the Internet through the IP
address transmitted to DNS server
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