Create your account and choose a hostname.To configure everything, there is 3 main steps, that I’ll explain in this tutorial: Your router at home, will redirect the traffic to the Raspberry Pi, or to another host on the network, depending on what you want to do. The remote client can be anywhere in the world, and access the hostname created on No-IP (we’ll see how to create one just after that). If you need a visual to better understand, here is how it works: Thanks to this provider, you can host any service you want at home (on your Raspberry Pi or not). The idea in that kind of architecture, is to use the No-IP service to get a hostname, that will always redirect to your public IP address. If you are lost in all these new words and abbreviations, request my free Raspberry Pi glossary here (PDF format)! In fact, it’s not possible as you can’t change the MX option in the DNS configuration on a free plan.īasically, start with the free DDNS service, and you can always see later if you need more options to do what you want. I think there is also an advanced plan, where you can use your domain name, with all the features.įor example, I know that some of you tried No-IP free plan to host a mail server. Yes, with the free plan, you need to log in every 30 days to re-enable the hostname. An enhanced plan: It’s a paid service, but you can define several hostnames (over 20 I think), have more choices for the domain names, and also no ads and no 30-day hostname confirmation required.You can choose a subdomain (for example: ) and link it to your IP address, so that you can use this subdomain to remotely access the service. It’s perfect to host a basic service like a website, SSH access, a Samba share or FTP server for example. A free plan: Probably the one you are interested in. No-IP offers two different service, with different pricing: It gives you a way to access your home server from anywhere, even if you don’t have a static IP address. It’s particularly useful if your public IP address change regularly. The idea is to link a domain name (or a subdomain in the free plan), to your IP address. This is usually installed by default on most Linux and BSD distros, but if not use your package manager to install it.If you are here, you probably already know what No-IP is and what it does, so I’ll be quick here. This script has one dependency, which is wget. The script can be run as a single instance with command line parameters, as a daemon, using crontabs (a utility for running programs on a schedule) or as a Linux service. I'm running Ubuntu server so I'm using apt and nano, but this should work on anything POSIX based such as Mac OS X, BSD, any flavor of Linux - even the Raspberry Pi. Here is my how-to guide and documentation for setting this up. There was no output to the console or to a log file either to diagnose the problem that I could find, so I decided to go about writing my own, which really wasn't that hard to do using a bash script and a few simple utilities on my Linux box. I downloaded the source and compile it following the instructions, and it appeared to be running, but it never updated my IP address. Many routers have a built in NO-IP client, but my router doesn't support NO-IP, and for whatever reason, I could never get the client that NO-IP recommended for a Linux host to work. NO-IP then associates that IP with the domain name so services can be setup against the domain rather than the IP that changes. Dynamic DNS allows a domain name (i.e ) to use a dynamic IP by updating NO-IP with a new IP address when the IP address changes. Typically, a domain name requires a static IP address to work. Most home and small office connections to the Internet have a dynamic IP, which means the IP addresses changes most every time the connection from the router is established. For those less familiar with NO-IP, it is a free dynamic DNS service. I'm probably not the first one to do this, but I had a need to use NO-IP's dynamic DNS service so I could easily configure devices and computers to access resources on my LAN when I'm away.
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