[clug] Running my own dynamic DNS?

[Paul Wayper]

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Hi all,

I used to have tangram.dnsalias.net pointing to my home internet connection;
but then dyn.com (who owns dnsalias.net) stopped offering it as a free
service.  This made me think that I should actually get a better setup for
accessing my home internet connection through a dynamic IP address.

Does anyone know if it's possible, and sane, to run some kind of dynamic DNS
system?  Are there standard packages out there that take a regular login
from ones home router and update a DNS A record based on the router's public
address?  Or is it just considered too insecure?

I know the standard solution for this would be to ... actually get a static
IP address.  I will ponder the extra cost.

Thanks in advance,

Paul
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