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User Manual of WDAP-C7210E
5.2.10
DDNS
The router offers the DDNS (Dynamic Domain Name System) feature, which allows the hosting of a website,
FTP server, or e-mail server with a fixed domain name (named by yourself) and a dynamic IP address, and then
your friends can connect to your server by entering your domain name no matter what your IP address is. Before
using this feature, you need to sign up for DDNS service providers such as PLANET DDNS
(http://www.planetddns.com) and set up the domain name of your choice.
PLANET DDNS website provides a free DDNS (Dynamic Domain Name Server) service for PLANET devices.
Whether the IP address used on your PLANET device supporting DDNS service is fixed or dynamic, you can
easily connect the devices anywhere on the Internet with a meaningful or easy-to-remember name you gave.
PLANET DDNS provides two types of DDNS services. One is PLANET DDNS and the other is PLANET Easy
DDNS as shown in
Figure
5-36.
PLANET DDNS
For example, you've just installed a PLANET IP camera with dynamic IP like 210.66.155.93 in the network. You
can name this device as "Mycam1" and register a domain as Mycam1.planetddns.com at PLANET DDNS
(http://www.planetddns.com). Thus, you don't need to memorize the exact IP address but just the URL link:
Mycam1.planetddns.com.
PLANET Easy DDNS
PLANET Easy DDNS is an easy way to help user to get your Domain Name with just one click. You can just log
in to the Web Management Interface of your devices, say, your router, and check the DDNS menu and just
enable it. You don't need to go to
http://www.planetddns.com
to apply for a new account. Once you enabled the
Easy DDNS, your PLANET Network Device will use the format PLxxxxxx where xxxxxx is the last 6 characters of
your MAC address that can be found on the Web page or bottom label of the device. (For example, if the router's
MAC address is A8-F7-E0-81-96-C9, it will be converted into pt8196c9.planetddns.com)
Figure 5-36: PLANET DDNS
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