P314 Broadband Sharing Gateway with 4-Port Switch
Hardware Installation and Setup 2-9
choice) which will never change instead of using your IP address that changes each time you reconnect. Your
friends or relatives will always be able to call you even if they don’t know your IP address.
First of all, you need to have registered a dynamic DNS account with www.dyndns.org. This is for people
with a dynamic IP from their ISP or DHCP server that would still like to have a DNS name.
To use this service, you must register with the Dynamic DNS client. The Dynamic DNS Client service
provider will give you a password or key. The Prestige at the time of writing supports www.ddns.org and
www.dyndns.org clients. You can apply to either of these clients for Dynamic DNS service.
DYNDNS Wildcard
Enabling the wildcard feature for your host causes
*.
yourhost.dyndns.org to be aliased to the same IP address
as yourhost.dyndns.org. This feature is useful if you want to be able to use for example
www
.yourhost.dyndns.org and still reach your hostname.
2.7.2 Configuring Dynamic DNS
To configure Dynamic DNS, go to
Menu 1 – General Setup
and press select
Yes
in the
Configure
Dynamic DNS
field.
Pressing
[Enter]
takes you to
Menu 1.1– Configure Dynamic DNS
as shown next.
Figure 2-8 Configure Dynamic DNS
Follow the instructions in the next table to configure Dynamic DNS parameters.
Table 2-5 Configure Dynamic DNS Menu Fields
Field Description Example
Service
Provider
Enter the name of your Dynamic DNS client.
www.ddns.org
Active
Press [SPACE BAR] to toggle
between
Yes
or
No
.
Yes
Host Enter the domain name assigned to your Prestige by your
Dynamic DNS provider.
me.ddns.org
EMAIL Enter your e-mail address.
mail@mailserver
User Enter your user name.
Menu 1.1 - Configure Dynamic DNS
Service Provider = WWW.DynDNS.ORG
Active= Yes
Host= me.ddns.org
EMAIL= mail@mailserver
User= username
Password= ******
Enable Wildcard= No
Press ENTER to confirm or ESC to cancel:
