#RUN DYN UPDATER AS A SERVICE HOW TO#
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When the service 1 st starts, it will update the DNS Record. You will need to restart the service to make any changes take effect. SMTPSSL - Set to 1 for SMTPS (e.g.: Gmail).SMTPPort - The SMTP port to connect to (Defaults to 25).

#RUN DYN UPDATER AS A SERVICE PASSWORD#

SMTPPassword - The SMTP Password to send if you are using SMTP Authentication.SMTPUsername - The SMTP Username to send if you are using SMTP Authentication.SMTPAuth - Will use SMTP Authentication.If this field is blank, then no e-mails will be sent. Contact your ISP if you do not know what this is. SMTPServer - This is the name or IP Address of your outgoing SMTP server.MailFrom - This is the address that the e-mail will be sent from.There can be multiple addresses here if they are separated by a semi-colon ( ).

MailTO - This is the destination address(s) that you want to send an e-mail to when an update occurs.

DisableStartupCheck - When this is set to 1, the app will not update the DNS record on startup if it is not necessary.

Starting January 14, 2013, has decided you need to pay $50 / year to use their service. If you have problems with the error message 'excessive usage', setting this to 1 should solve it. Setting this to '2' will force it to use the old provider (on ). Starting with version 1.4, it will default to use (equal to 1).

IPProvider - Decides what IP Provider to use.

If a newer version is available, it will send an e-mail to you (using the address configured below), and log an event to the Application event log

CheckForUpdate - When this is set to 1, on a weekly basis it will check this server to see if a newer version is available.

IgnoreCert - If this is set to 1, it will ignore an invalid SSL certificate.

SecureUpdate - If this is set to 1, it will use HTTPS to send the updates.

Hosts - This is the comma-separated list of domains that you want to update with the new IP Address.

It needs your username & password in order to login to and update your records. The sections are fairly self explanatory. The system is configured from an simple ini file.

Sends e-mail to you when an update occurs.

Now checks the existing DNS record on startup and only updates if necessary.

Checks for an IP change every 15 minutes.

Automatically checks weekly for updates, and sends an alert to e-mail and Event log.Allows secure Updates (using HTTPS) to Zoneedit.NEW! Can use SMTPS (Secure SMTP) (if needed).The application runs as a service, so that it will always be running whenever your computer is. Using the information from this source, I was able to create my own (mostly) open source program.

#RUN DYN UPDATER AS A SERVICE HOW TO#

The instructions on how to make the request are laid out on ZoneEdit's page about Dynamic DNS. The ZoneEdit program is to be open source, and the source will soon be provided. I wasn't really interested in the $20 one, and after trying the ZoneEdit program, I found it was a bit flaky (it would regularly not be able to find it's IP, etc). One was being sold for about $20 (called DirectUpdate), and the other is ZoneEdit's own open source program (called zeDyn). However I could only find 2 clients that worked with. I recently switched to using ZoneEdit's dynamic DNS service.

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