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		<title>Updating OpenDNS With a Dynamic IP From an Endian Firewall</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:58:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Linux/Unix]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Networking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Endian router/firewall appliance comes with a Dynamic DNS client that supports the major DDNS providers, but it doesn&#8217;t support updating OpenDNS, which is necessary for any custom settings on your OpenDNS account to be applied to the traffic you pass through their servers.
It&#8217;s possible to configure this yourself, though. There&#8217;s a helpful post at [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Endian router/firewall appliance comes with a Dynamic DNS client that supports the major DDNS providers, but it doesn&#8217;t support updating OpenDNS, which is necessary for any custom settings on your OpenDNS account to be applied to the traffic you pass through their servers.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s possible to configure this yourself, though. There&#8217;s a helpful post at the OpenDNS forums that describes <a href=" http://forums.opendns.com/comments.php?DiscussionID=1911&amp;page=1#Item_0">how to configure ddclient on an Endian</a> to automatically update an OpenDNS account whenever your dynamic IP address changes.</p>
<p>Here are a few additional notes that may help:</p>
<ul>
<li>You don&#8217;t need to query an external website for your IP address, since the Endian box already knows it. Set ddclient.conf with &#8220;use=if, if=eth0&#8243; (or whichever NIC is your red zone).</li>
<li>It won&#8217;t work if you set &#8220;ssl=no&#8221;, so you have to leave it set to yes and install the two Perl SSL modules listed in the post.</li>
<li>Endian doesn&#8217;t have an SMTP server installed, so ddclient can&#8217;t send you status e-mails. Comment out the &#8220;mail&#8221; and &#8220;mail-failure&#8221; lines to avoid errors.</li>
<li>Make sure you don&#8217;t have any spaces in the OpenDNS network label or ddclient conf file.</li>
</ul>
<p>To test if it&#8217;s working, you&#8217;ll need to get a new dynamic IP.</p>
<ul>
<li>Turn off your cable or dsl modem.</li>
<li>Spoof the MAC address on the Endian.
<ul>
<li>On your PC, open a command prompt and type &#8220;ipconfig /all&#8221;. Copy the value of the Physical Address line. It will look something like 00-4D-B7-D3-5F-03.</li>
<li>Go to the Network Configuration wizard on the Endian.</li>
<li>In step 4, enter your PC&#8217;s MAC into the &#8220;Spoof MAC address with&#8221; field. Change the dashes to colons so that it looks like 00:4D:B7:D3:5F:03.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Shut down the Endian.</li>
<li>Turn the modem back on. Wait 15 seconds.</li>
<li>Turn the Endian back on.</li>
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<p>Once you&#8217;ve verified it&#8217;s working, you can remove the spoof setting by repeating the steps.</p>
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		<title>Memorable IP Address</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:16:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Networking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re troubleshooting a network&#8217;s uplink to the Internet and want a memorable external IP address to ping, then you can use 4.2.2.2, which is one of Verizon&#8217;s DNS servers.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you&#8217;re troubleshooting a network&#8217;s uplink to the Internet and want a memorable external IP address to ping, then you can use 4.2.2.2, which is one of Verizon&#8217;s DNS servers.</p>
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