Comments on: Three Steps to a Free Domain for your Home Network http://www.techthrob.com/2009/03/02/three-steps-to-a-free-domain-for-your-home-network/ Words of Wisdom for Technologists Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:32:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: John D http://www.techthrob.com/2009/03/02/three-steps-to-a-free-domain-for-your-home-network/comment-page-1/#comment-2847 John D Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:58:23 +0000 http://www.techthrob.com/wp/wordpress/?p=15#comment-2847 Tomato Router Firmware keeps this up to date for me Tomato Router Firmware keeps this up to date for me

]]> By: HeinerVG http://www.techthrob.com/2009/03/02/three-steps-to-a-free-domain-for-your-home-network/comment-page-1/#comment-2771 HeinerVG Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:32:17 +0000 http://www.techthrob.com/wp/wordpress/?p=15#comment-2771 @kindofabuzz: That depends of the Linksys router model, because not all of them complains with the GPL license or will have a *nix based OS installed on them :) @kindofabuzz:

That depends of the Linksys router model, because not all of them complains with the GPL license or will have a *nix based OS installed on them :)

]]> By: kindofabuzz http://www.techthrob.com/2009/03/02/three-steps-to-a-free-domain-for-your-home-network/comment-page-1/#comment-255 kindofabuzz Tue, 07 Apr 2009 04:50:00 +0000 http://www.techthrob.com/wp/wordpress/?p=15#comment-255 If you have a Linksys router you don't need ddclient, it's built into Linksys firmware. If you have a Linksys router you don’t need ddclient, it’s built into Linksys firmware.

]]> By: Jonathan DePrizio http://www.techthrob.com/2009/03/02/three-steps-to-a-free-domain-for-your-home-network/comment-page-1/#comment-73 Jonathan DePrizio Mon, 16 Mar 2009 01:24:54 +0000 http://www.techthrob.com/wp/wordpress/?p=15#comment-73 Hi Griffen, thanks for posting a comment. This does not really have any security implications; all it is doing is pointing a DNS entry to your IP address. If you previously had security vulnerabilities at your IP, now they will also be available through that domain name. The only real implication I can think of is that while you previously may have had a dynamic IP address, which would mean that every time your IP changed, an attacker would have to go through the work of finding you all over again, here you have a domain name that will always point to you. So the convenience works both ways. But that being said, I don't think this poses any added security risk, assuming you are already taking basic security precautions (firewall, etc). Hi Griffen, thanks for posting a comment.

This does not really have any security implications; all it is doing is pointing a DNS entry to your IP address. If you previously had security vulnerabilities at your IP, now they will also be available through that domain name.

The only real implication I can think of is that while you previously may have had a dynamic IP address, which would mean that every time your IP changed, an attacker would have to go through the work of finding you all over again, here you have a domain name that will always point to you.

So the convenience works both ways. But that being said, I don’t think this poses any added security risk, assuming you are already taking basic security precautions (firewall, etc).

]]> By: GriFF3n http://www.techthrob.com/2009/03/02/three-steps-to-a-free-domain-for-your-home-network/comment-page-1/#comment-72 GriFF3n Mon, 16 Mar 2009 01:10:00 +0000 http://www.techthrob.com/wp/wordpress/?p=15#comment-72 Nice howto Jonathan. How secure is this for the home network? Want to try this on my home server, just worried about security. Nice howto Jonathan. How secure is this for the home network? Want to try this on my home server, just worried about security.

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