Recently I’ve changed my dynamic DNS service to DynDNS who offer a great free service. Now I can connect to my home PC via IP using a custom URL, e.g., geekhive.hostpc.org. I used to use No-IP.org for this service but their Linux client wasn’t working too well with Ubuntu installation.
Speaking of DNS I’ve been using OpenDNS for a few months now with great success. OpenDNS provide a DNS service you can use in place of your ISP for Domain Name Resolution. Because they have a huge cache of internet domain names they are able to process requests very quickly. With your free account you are also given a dashboard enabling you to create custom DNS entries for your favourite sites. You could setup “fb” to send you to http://www.facebook.com, for example. OpenDNS also includes a phishing filter, typo correction and gives you control over the types of content that PCs on your network can view. I highly recommend OpenDNS to anyone.
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Recently I’ve changed my dynamic DNS service to DynDNS who offer a great free service. Now I can connect to my home PC via IP using a custom URL, e.g., geekhive.hostpc.org. I used to use No-IP.org for this service but their Linux client wasn’t working too well with Ubuntu installation.
Speaking of DNS I’ve been using OpenDNS for a few months now with great success. OpenDNS provide a DNS service you can use in place of your ISP for Domain Name Resolution. Because they have a huge cache of internet domain names they are able to process requests very quickly. With your free account you are also given a dashboard enabling you to create custom DNS entries for your favourite sites. You could setup “fb” to send you to http://www.facebook.com, for example. OpenDNS also includes a phishing filter, typo correction and gives you control over the types of content that PCs on your network can view. I highly recommend OpenDNS to anyone.