[clue-tech] Linksys wrt54gl story and question.

[Ken MacFerrin]

erik at ezolan.com wrote:
> So the other day I was happily web browsing when the Internet went out on
> me. To make a long story short, after calling Comcast it seems that my
> Linksys router had died on me.
> 
> Later that day, I was thinking "How can a solid state device go bad
> without giving off smoke or something?" So I did a hard reset, and
> uploaded the latest firmware from Linksys. Walla. Everything worked fine
> again. (Again, long story short)
> 
> But while I was doing that, I realized that I had the router that Linksys
> claims it made to be linux friendly. And came across a handful of open
> source firmware projects.
> 
> But there's only one thing I want from such a beast (Two, if you count
> easy-of-use).  I use DynDNS, and even though the Linksys firmware has a
> spot for it, it doesn't do the required refresh. If you don't let DynDNS
> know your current IP address within 35 days, it removes you from the
> records. Even if your IP hasn't changed.
> 
> Right now I have a dynDNS Updater that I run in my system tray on a
> Windows computer on the LAN, but I would *much* prefer to have the router
> do it.
> 
> Is there an open source router firmware that can do that?
> 
> Erik Z

The DD-WRT firmware supports DyDns, freedns.afraid.org, zoneedit, no-ip,
3322.org, easydns, TZO and custom defined ddns..
-Ken