![]() Thanks to ZeroConf, Bonjour, NAT-PMP, and DNS-SD, your device or service will automatically configure its internal IP address, enable port forwarding in your home gateway, register a hostname in your account at Dyn, and configure your service for automatic discovery with Wide Area Bonjour. Tell your service or device how to authenticate with your account on Dyn to access your Dyn Standard DNS service.With Bonjour and Dyn, we can configure remote access for our LAN services and devices as follows: The Dyn Standard DNS service is also a Wide Area Bonjour-capable DNS server, allowing you to remotely access your dynamic global hostname and all of your shared services automatically from anywhere on the Internet. The trick to making automatic service discovery and sharing work over the Internet is a Bonjour-capable DNS server. Wouldn’t it be great if when we plugged in a new network camera on our LAN, it was automatically discoverable and ready for access? Not just from the LAN, but from the Internet as well? Granted, we would still want to enter our username and password in order to see the video from the camera, but it should be able to FIND the camera so we can enter in the username and password to see the video! ![]() This is a complicated process, and there has to be a better way. Send the URL for your device or service to your friends or family, or hope to remember it yourself (sometimes, these can get quite ugly, like.Configuring Dynamic DNS in your home gateway or using one of our update clients to keep your dynamic DNS hostname up to date with your latest WAN IP.Configuring port forwarding on your home gateway, wireless access point, or broadband router, effectively punching a static hole so that your port 80 on your external WAN IP maps to port 80 for the internal IP address of your device.Setting up a reserved DHCP lease or static internal IP address for your internal device or service.If you wanted to access your services and devices from outside of your LAN, you had a few more steps to follow: Remote Access via manual port forwarding and dynamic DNS update clientsįor several years, users have been able to use this “plug and play” technology on the local area network, automatically connecting devices together and having them discover each other. Have you ever noticed that your Mac OS X laptop could automatically discover available printers on a new wireless network you connected to, or how iTunes could magically see other iTunes music libraries on the network and let you stream music instantly? Bonjour makes this all possible. What is Bonjour?īonjour is an Apple technology enabling Zero Configuration Networking. Learn more about Bonjour and how to use it below. The recommended method for updating your Dynamic DNS host is the Dyn Updater.ĭyn had been conducting a beta of Wide Area Bonjour and DNS Service Discovery support for Dyn Standard DNS. If you need assistance, check out the Dyn Community. Note: Because this is an experimental feature, we cannot provide technical support for this setup.
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