Setup No-IP Auto Update on Fedora 13
Most home internet connections are provided with dynamic address assignment. This is very convenient for your ISP should they ever need to change IP addresses, however, its not so convenient for you if you like to access your home network remotely. Thankfully No-IP.com provides a free service that allows you to get around this issue. No-IP provides dynamic DNS entries with free clients to update their servers. All you need to do is create an account, install their client to update their servers should your IP address change, and from time to time log into your account to keep it active. Then you can remotely connect to your computer via remote desktop, vnc, ssh, etc through a domain name of your choice. To configure the client on Fedora 13 is very simple. Instead of downloading and manually compiling the client from source you can install it via rpm through yum: #yum install noip You will also find it if you do a search for "noip" in the "Add/Remove Software...