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DYNDNS Info

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DYNDns informations and setup instructions

Geben Sie Ihrer Dynamischen IP-Adresse die Möglichkeiten einer statischen IP-Adresse! Dynamische DNS Einträge sind ideal, wenn Sie einen eigenen Webserver, Mailserver, ... (überprüfen Sie bitte zuvor auch die Konfiguration der Firewall!!!) auf einer nicht-statischen IP-Adresse betreiben wollen (z.B. ADSL Zugänge). Sie installieren ein kleines Programm auf Ihrem PC (derzeit für Windows und Linux verfügbar), welches den DNS-Eintrag auf unserem Nameserver automatisch auf die neue Adresse Ihres Servers updated!

Test if DYNDns works with your provider

Some providers (often internet-access for cellular phones or Intranets or VPNs) give their customers not only a dynamic address, but also a so called


How do i test if dyn-dns works with my provider (using Windows)?

  • Download the DYN-DNS tool from our FTP-Server.
  • Install the software on your PC (simply double-click the downloaded DYNDNS.EXE)
  • Double-click the DYN-DNS Icon
  • If you receive this error-message DYN-DNS does not work with your provider, sorry. Maybe your network-administrator can give you a non-private IP-Adress.

  • Congratulations!!! DYN-DNS works with your internet-access!


    How do i test if dyn-dns works with my provider (using Linux)?

  • Download the DYN-DNS tool from our FTP-Server.
  • Do the following command at your linux-prompt
    # chmod +x internicdns
  • Than you start the program with:
    # ./internicdns -t
  • If you receive the following error-message below, DYN-DNS does not work with your provider, sorry!
    Connecting to 'dyndns.internic.at' [212.126.65.176]...OK!
    << INTERNIC DYN-DNS V1.00
    << 212.126.64.12
    Local IP: '10.0.45.6' (Server says my IP is: '212.126.64.12')
    The server reports, that you have a different local IP!
    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++


    This means, that you are behind a firewall which makes address translation!
    To use this product your host must have a legal IP-Adress.

    Maybe you can talk to your system-administrator, to makethe appropriate
    changes to your network-setup!

  • Congratulations!!! If you receive the following message, DYN-DNS works with your provider!
    Connecting to 'dyndns.internic.at' [212.126.65.176]...OK!
    << INTERNIC DYN-DNS V1.00
    << 212.126.65.134
    Local IP: '212.126.65.134' (Server says my IP is: '212.126.65.134')
    Basic SETUP is OK...finished test-mode successfully!


    Setup von DYN-DNS (Windows)

  • Go to DNS-management in your domain-management
  • Your browserwindow should now look like this: (after selecting the desired domain)
  • Enter your hostnamen without the Domain-Name (i.e.: only www instead of www.mydomain.com)
  • Assign also a password to protect your dynamic-host entry, this is important, as you have to enter this password also at your client.
  • The field

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  • Enter now the complete hostname (i.e.: www.mydomain.com) in the field
  • Afterwards please enter the password, which you assigned in the DNS-Management before, in the field
  • Press the
  • At the next start of DYNDNS the hosts you entered will be processed automatically, you just have to leave DYNDNS in the autostart-group.
  • Please keep in mind that the first-time start of a new host-entry takes about 1 hour until it is published all over the world, at the next starts it will take approx. 5 minutes, until the entry is published world-wide.


    Setup of DYN-DNS (Linux)

  • Go to DNS-management in your domain-management
  • Your browserwindow should now look like this: (after selecting the desired domain)
  • Enter your hostnamen without the Domain-Name (i.e.: only www instead of www.mydomain.com)
  • Assign also a password to protect your dynamic-host entry, this is important, as you have to enter this password also at your client.
  • The field
  • Simply start internicdns in your startupscript as follows:
     # ./internicdns www.mydomain.com password
  • Done!!! Of course you can run
  • Please keep in mind that the first-time start of a new host-entry takes about 1 hour until it is published all over the world, at the next starts it will take approx. 5 minutes, until the entry is published world-wide.

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    Tel: +43.1.3249685, Fax: +43.1.3249686, Email: info@internic.at, Web: https://wwwa.internic.at