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Old 15th May 2008
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The problem here is that you have a dynamic IP, really. Your dyndns.org name is not resolving properly for some reason. Dynamic IPs are designed to thwart this sort of thing. dyndns is a kludge to get around it.

If your ISP offers static IPs, it will make your life a lot easier. Then you will have a fixed IP that you can either SSH to by IP, or you can set up your own name server (I use bind9) and purchase a domain name so that you can attach names to your own machines.

My ISP provides two static IPs at no charge. Additional static IPs up to four total are $9.95 per month. One static IP will probably do the trick because you can ssh into one box on your lan, and then ssh to other machines from there, or do port forwarding tricks to use the same IP but different ports for each machine. (This only matters if you intend to have more than one machine accessible to the world.)
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