OT: SSH on OS X

[J. Landman Gay]

Sarah Reichelt wrote:
>> Now about the issue of dynamic WAN IPs. There are a few services you can
>> sign up with for free that act sort of like a DNS service for private
>> routers. They allow you to log in to an account name instead of an IP
>> number, and will re-route the name to the current WAN IP of your home
>> router. Every time your ISP changes the number, your router informs the
>> service and they update the routing info. Most routers these days
>> support this stuff, I think. My Netgear router supports any of three of
>> these services, one of which is dyndns.org, which is what I will
>> probably use. Once you sign up, you just set your router to notify the
>> service at every IP change.
> 
> I use dyndns and fine it very satisfactory but be very careful about
> using your router to update it for you. I tried this using a Netgear
> router and got blacklisted for submitting changes every few minutes.
> Go to the dyndns site and find a client. For Mac OS X DNSUpdate works
> flawlessly and unobtrusively.

Thanks very much for this. I was going to use the router. I did see the 
warning on dyndns's web site but assumed the router would handle things 
correctly.

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