Soho WER-401, User Manual

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WER-401 Wireless SOHO Firewall Gateway
Chapter 6
The Advanced Setup Screens
This chapter discusses how to configure dynamic DNS, port forwarding, static routes, dynamic routes,
backing up/restoring the configuration file, uploading new software and remote management.
6.1 Dynamic DNS
Click the Dynamic DNS tab to display the next screen. Use this screen to configure dynamic Domain Name
Server
Your router supports Dynamic Domain Name Service (DDNS). In a Dynamic DNS service, an IP registry
server provides a public central database where dynamically-assigned IP addresses can be stored and
retrieved by hostname lookup. The Dynamic DNS server also stores password-protected e-mail addresses
along with IP addresses and hostnames and accepts queries based on e-mail addresses.
You can update your current dynamic IP address with one or many dynamic DNS services so that anyone can
contact you (in
NetMeeting , CU-SeeMe , etc.). You can also access your FTP server or Web site on your own
computer using a DNS-like address (e.g. myhost.dhs.org , where myhost is a name of your choice) which will
never change instead of using an 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.
The wireless SOHO Firewall gateway, at the time of writing, supports the www.dyndns.org client. You can
apply to this client for Dynamic DNS service.
6.1.1 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.
The table following the figure describes the fields contained within.
The Advanced Setup Screens 6-1