Dynamic DNS
Computers on the Internet communicate with one another based on each other’s IP addresses. Since it is easier for humans to remember computer names rather than IP addresses, Domain Name System (DNS) came about to facilitate the translation or mapping of fully qualified domain names (FQDN) such as www.versiera.com into their Internet IP address (216.176.62.87). DNS must be manually administered to manage the translation mappings for computer names and their respective IP addresses. Dynamic DNS enables automatic updates of DNS records by remote computers whenever their IP address changes and to populate or update the changes in DNS. The frequent updates of computer IP addresses are usually the result of Internet facing computers configured to receive their IP address from Cable/DSL Internet Service Providers (ISPs) using Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP). Versiera will shortly be adding to its list of features Dynamic DNS (DDNS). Users of Versiera will have the ability to assign alias names (i.e. mycomputer.locate-ip.com) to Versiera registered hosts and place them into one of several available domain zone files. Versiera agents residing on remote computers will be responsible for maintaining updated DDNS records whenever the computer’s IP address changes (more precisely the source Internet IP address seen by Versiera). Computers with a static Internet IP address that are not already referenced in any Internet DNS zone file can also benefit by using Versiera DDNS to allow for their referencing by an assigned alias name in Versiera. To locate or connect to your computer from another location on the Internet, Versiera users will only have to remember the name they have assigned their particular computer i.e. PING mycomputer.locate-ip.com.