I had a dyndns host name and address, and even had a dyn updater from the dyndns folks which worked most awesome for a while; but at some point, it stopped updating and my host was gone; and I hadn't really cared because I so rarely access my ISY from far away. But, of course, I began to care lately with the holidays (being out of town and having people house sit). I reviewed my notes and feel the only new things about my set up are 1) addition of a second Mobilinc app on my wife's new iTouch; and 2) the introduction of an ethernet switch between the router and Isy99 so that I can send info to the TV and TIVO box. I did not think that should be a problem as they will be given their own addresses as needed and the ISY, I thought, would maintain it's static address. Did I mess something up?

 

Sorry I touched it.

 

David

OK - I got the IP address right and all other setting and it seems to work. So now it is back to the drawing board with an appropriate free DNS hosting site.

If you dont log in to dyndns for a period of time with a free account then it will remove your forwarded url.

It's not free, but I have been using dreamhost for a few years on their crazy insane domain account. About $11 a month which basically gives me unlimited bandwidth, unlimited storage (although they claim they only allow 50gbs for backup (I have a _bit_ more than that used). They support vanity urls so I send my isy requests there with a customer url off my web domain. Also use it to route my mail, etc.

 

There is full shell access, mysql, perl etc, so it is literally like having a server in a rack someplace far off.

no-ip.com still has free dyndns hosting.