Telstra ADSL

Howard Lowndes lannet at lannet.com.au
Mon Aug 5 14:42:59 EST 2002


On Mon, 5 Aug 2002, Brett Worth wrote:

> On Mon, 5 Aug 2002, Howard Lowndes wrote:
>
> > Is anyone out there using dyndns.com or dyndns.com who would like to
> > comment on their services.  Is there a minimum TTL you can set?  How do
> > they authenticate the updates?
>
> I've been using dyndns and the ddclient software for a couple of months
> now.  To authenticate you put your dyndns username and password straight
> into the /etc/ddclient.conf file.  ddclient is a perl script.

I hope that doesn't get sent over the net in clear, or even in encrypted
form - very insecure.

>
>

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