Re: [Hampshire] dyndns service changes?

Andy Random wrote:
>
> On Sun, 21 Oct 2007, Adam Trickett wrote:
>
>> I've had that in the past. Basically my dynamic IP didn't change much
>> so they
>> treated that as lack of activity. I just manually set it to something
>> else
>> then set it back again. All okay.
>
> Yes, but they used to provide a service designed for people who's IP
> addresses didn't change much, now they seem to have dropped that service.
>
>> They need to make money, they aren't a charity.
>
> I understand that, we all need to make money somehow and if they had
> simply said "heck we need more money" I wouldn't have has a problem with
> that.
>
> This I see as being somewhat more under handed. It's a change of service
> which they are calling an improvement, but clearly isn't for people who
> used the old service they have discontinued and to add insult to injury
> they are saying well using our new improved service you have to pay to
> get the same features you used to have.
>
> It's not the end of the world, I just wish they had been more honest
> about their motivations.
>
> Andy
>

I use EveryDNS, as recommended by someone on the list (sorry I don't
remember your name!)

They provide a perl script to update your IP with them which is entirely
painless.

James