DynDns (was RE: [olug] Cygwin Setup)

[Trent Melcher]

Yes that is what I meant Off-Topic from the current thread, but still
valid for the list.

Are they blocking email again, last time I checked (4 months ago) they
had opened it back up for email. 

Trent
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 15:53, William E. Kempf wrote:
> Trent Melcher said:
> > THis is Off-Topic, but do you like using mydyndns for your DNS
> > resolution??? How is their service??  Are they one of those
> > you-get-what-you-pay-for services?
> 
> Off the topic of the thread, maybe, but I'd say this is very much on topic
> on this list, no?
> 
> I can't say enough about the dynamic DNS service provided by
> http://www.dyndns.org.  You have to "pay" for the service in order to use
> a registered domain name, but it's a low one time donation (or at least it
> was one I signed up... I don't know if they've changed the pricing
> structure for newer users).  I've never had a single problem with the
> service, and have been using it for over a year.  I had a question about
> whether or not they could provide a mail service to work around Cox's port
> blocking, and though the question was sent to an e-mail address, I
> received a curteous and complete response within 5 minutes!  The support
> representative even carried on an e-mail conversation with me for a short
> while discussing whether or not they could/would provide this service in
> the future and what alternate solutions they might suggest.  So the human
> tech support is more than top notch in my opinion.  I've honestly never
> gotten better support from even commercial service providers.
> 
> The only things I dislike (and they aren't really problems with
> www.dyndns.org) are that "web hops" aren't transparent and only work for
> the top-level URL (for instance, I've got a web hop for
> http://www.kempf-ville.com, which still just has the apache page :(, but
> you can't specify http://www.kempf-ville.com/~wekempf/cygwin/ to get to
> the documentation I posted, as one would hope you could), and there's not
> (currently) a solution for Cox's blocking of e-mail ports.
-- 
Trent Melcher <tmelcher at trilogytel.com>