Setting Up an FTP behind a dynamic IP

[Jason]

Is there anyway i can do this? On a pc there are programs that will basically give you a different IP address that forwards directly to your current IP address, thus allowing FTP

is there a way or a program that does this for OSX? (preferably works with jag)

thanks!

[Steve Bosell]

dyndns.org and dns update is all you need

[Jason]

dns update doesnt like jag, and neither does crush ftp

[hazmat]

Does DNS Update work yet with 10.2? There are no version dates at the guy's web site. I am thinking of switching to dyndns.org since DNS2Go is moving to a pay service, and they still don't support OS X, nor do they reply to emails.

Worst case scenario is that I have an SMC Barricade 7004BR, for which there is a command line java utility at the dyndns site.

[DMCrimson]

you could use hn.org or no-ip.org, there are others I'm sure.

[Jason]

dns update doesnt work as of yet

i go to dynamicdns.org and manually set it when i want my ftp up

oh well :-\

[gatorparrots]

I'm using Dynu.com's premium service and it works well for e-mail, ftp, and web services. They also offer a free version as well.

Their OS X GUI program isn't very stable, but I have modified their CLI Linux perl script to run on Mac OS X. You could have cron run it at regular intervals to keep your IP updated with them.

[hazmat]

Originally posted by BuddahBobb
dns update doesnt work as of yet

i go to dynamicdns.org and manually set it when i want my ftp up

oh well :-\

By curiosity, what exactly doesn't work? I downloaded it and ran it and it wanted to install the daemon, so I didn't let it. But I was expecting it not to run at all.

Thanks for the other suggestions, but I was leaning towards dyndns because I know they've been around a while and are very well-liked.