A Dynamic Domain Name System (DDNS) refers to the updating of Internet DNS
name servers in real-time to keep the active DNS configuration of host names, addresses,
and
other information up to date. It is typically used when businesses have frequent changes
to the
public host-name-to-IP-address mappings, usually when companies use PPPoE or DHCP
to obtain
Internet access. Using a DDNS service provides an automated way to deal with the propagation
of
new hostname-to-IP address mapping across the Internet. DDNS service providers act
as a broker to
manage this process.
Deep Edge is designed to the first
Internet-facing device an external client would connect to when trying to reach the
business, it
needs to make sure that all Internet users route their traffic to it for each host
name / domain
that the are trying to reach on the business side. With the DDNS client,
Deep Edge can communicate host-name-to-IP address changes to the
DDNS service provider.
With the Deep Edge Dynamic DNS support, register their
domains on the website of DDNS service vendors, and then configure information such
as their
account, password, and domain to have it maintained by Deep Edge. The DDNS provider allocates a static host name to the
user; whenever the user is allocated a new IP address this is communicated to the
DDNS provider
by software (implementing RFC 2136 or other protocols) running on an endpoint or network
device
at that address; the provider distributes the association between the host name and
the address to
the Internet's DNS servers so that they may resolve DNS queries. The Deep Edge DDNS client monitors the public IP address changes and
auto-synchronizes the IP address-domain mapping.
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Note
Some abnormal events will be logged, such as unexpected return status from the service
vendor.
All updating events are logged.
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