When running local services off your home computer, your IP address becomes an issue. This is due to the fact it can be hard to memorize and it may change- without letting you know. However, there is a work around for this! Setting up “Dynamic DNS” will allow you to access your computer through a domain name, even when your IP changes.

To do this you will need:

• A computer running Linux (We used Ubuntu)
• No-ip.com account (Free!)

On No-Ip.com

1. Sign into your account on no-ip.com
2. Click Add which is located under Hosts / Redirects.
3. Next to hostname put whatever you want, this will be your domain name.
4. Click Create Host , located at the bottom of the page.

On Your Linux Computer

1. Open up a terminal
2. Switch to root user

sudo su

3. Install the package no-ip

apt-get install no-ip

4. Configure no-ip

no-ip -C

• Select your internet interface
• Enter the login information
• If you only have one host it will use that, if not it will now ask which one you which to use
• Now it will ask for the update time (in minutes), i just used 30.
• Now it will ask if you want to run something at a successful update, I selected no.

Within the next 30 minutes your domain name should now point to your IP! Test it by sending a ping to it, or navigating to it in a web browser.

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