DynamicDNS: What is it?
Dynamic DNS allows you to point any hostname to your IP address at home/work/wherever, and have the value update automatically should the internet IP address change. This way you know exactly how to remotely administer your equipment from any location on the internet.
Darkscape supports dynamic DNS updates for your domain names.
How do I set it up?
In the Domain Zone Editor, create a record type "CNAME" with the value "ddip." (no quotes). Here's a shortcut to the page:
https://cp.darkscape.net/?pg=zone
How do I update my address?
Now to get the system to set that record's value to the internet IP address of the system you want, you have to call this URL:
https://cp.darkscape.net/dyndns/?u=username&p=password
On linux systems, this can be accomplished with utilities like lynx, curl, wget, and others. The page will return either ERROR or OK if the update is successful!
Keep checking back for updates, we are going to be changing this user/password for a generated hash in the near future for security reasons.