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4.2
Configuring General Setup - Continued
LABEL
DESCRIPTION
System Name
Type a descriptive name for identification purposes. Some ISPs check this name, so it is
recommended you enter your computer’s “Computer name”
This name can be up to 30 alphanumeric characters long. Spaces are not allowed, but dashes”-” and
underscores”_” are accepted.
Domain Name
Type the domain name (if you know it) here. If you leave this field blank, the ISP may assign a
domain name via DHCP. The domain name entered by you is given priority over the ISP assigned
domain name.
Administrator
Inactivity Timer
Type how many minutes a management session (either via the web web configuration utility or SMT)
can be left idle before the session times out.
The default is 5 minutes. After it times out you have to log in with your password again. Very long idle
timeouts may have security risks.
A value of “0” means a management session never times out, no matter how long it has been left idle
(not recommended).
System DNS Servers
First DNS Server
Second DNS
Server
Third DNS Server
Select
From ISP
if your ISP dynamically assigns DNS server information (and the Horizons’s WAN IP
address). The field to the right displays the (read-only) DNS server IP address that the ISP assigns.
Select
User-Defined
if you have the IP address of a DNS server. Enter the DNS server’s IP address in
the field to the right. If you chose
User-Defined,
but leave the IP address set to 0.0.0.0,
User-Defined
changes to
None
after you click
Apply.
If you set a second choice to
User-Defined,
and enter the
same IP address, the second
User-Defined
changes to
None
after you click
Apply.
Select
None
if you do not want to configure DNS servers. If you do not configure a DNS server, you
must know the IP address of a machine in order to access it.
Apply
Click
Apply
to save your changes back to the Horizons.
Reset
Click
Reset
to reload the previous configuration for this screen.
4.3 Dynamic DNS
Dynamic DNS allows you to 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 (for instance myhost.dhs.org,
where myhost is a name of your choice) that 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
dynamic DNS service provider will give you a password or key.
4.3.1 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.
If you have a private WAN IP address, then you cannot use Dynamic DNS.