[mythtv-users] Re: Why only numeric IP addresses work?

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Wednesday 13 October 2004 03:15, David Whyte wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 20:49:45 -0700, Yan-Fa Li <yanfali at best.com> 
wrote:
> > David Whyte wrote:
> > >>>Never heard of dyndns.org?
> > >>
> > >>I don't know if that will work for an internal network with
> > >> private (intranet) addresses.
> > >
> > > Should do
> >
> > It will as long as they let you input RFC1918 (10.X, 172.16.X and
> > 192.168.X) address space.  That's NOT what DynDNS was designed for,
> > but it's an original application assuming it works.
> >
> My dlink router used to set my DynDNS entry to 10.1.1.4 before I set
> my modem to bridged mode.  I therefore conclude that it should work
> :P
>

Cool... I never thought of using DynDNS as my own personal 'internal' 
DNS server.  I'd just assumed that they'd disallow RFC1918 addresses.  
I guess what they say about "assume" is true... :-)

JAC