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4.3.5 DDNS
The industrial wall-mount Gigabit router offers the DDNS (Dynamic Domain Name System) feature, which allows
the hosting of a website, FTP server, or e-mail server with a fixed domain name (named by yourself) and a
dynamic IP address, and then your friends can connect to your server by entering your domain name no matter
what your IP address is. Before using this feature, you need to sign up for DDNS service providers such as
PLANET DDNS
or
www.dyndns.org
. The Dynamic DNS client service provider will give you a password or key.
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Planet DDNS
PLANET DDNS website provides a free DDNS (Dynamic Domain Name Server) service for PLANET devices.
Whether the IP address used on your PLANET device supporting DDNS service is fixed or dynamic, you can
easily connect the devices anywhere on the Internet with a meaningful or easy-remembered name you
gave.PLANET DDNS provide two types of DDNS services. One is
Dynamic DDNS
and the other is
Easy DDNS
as shown in
Figure 4-30
.
PLANET Dynamic DDNS
For example, you've just installed a PLANET IP camera with dynamic IP like 210.66.155.93 in the network. You
can name this device as “Mycam1” and get the URL link as Mycam1.planetddns.com. Thus, you don't need to
memorize the exact IP address but just the URL link: Mycam1.planetddns.com.
PLANET Easy DDNS
PLANET Easy DDNS is an easy way to help user to get your Domain Name with just one click. You can just login
to the Web Management Interface of your devices, say, your IP Camera, check the DDNS menu and just enable it.
Once you enabled the Easy DDNS, your PLANET Network Device will use the format PLxxxxxx where xxxxxx is
the last 6 characters of your MAC address that can be found on the Web page or bottom label of the device. (For
example: A8-F7-E0-81-96-C9, it will be converted into pt8196c9.planetddns.com)
Figure 4-30:
PLANET DDNS
