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ZyXEL Communications Intelligent Broadband Sharing Gateway P-324 User Manual

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Prestige 324 Intelligent Broadband Sharing Gateway

Introducing the SMT and General Setup

5-11

Table 5-4 Configure Dynamic DNS Menu Fields

FIELD

DESCRIPTION

EXAMPLE

Enable Wildcard Your Prestige supports DYNDNS Wildcard. Press [SPACE BAR]

and then [ENTER] to select Yes or No This field is N/A when
you choose DDNS client as your service provider.

No

Offline

This field is only available when CustomDNS is selected in the
DDNS Type field. Press [SPACE BAR] and then [ENTER] to
select Yes. When Yes is selected,

http://www.dyndns.org/

traffic

is redirected to a URL that you have previously specified (see

www.dyndns.org

for details).

Yes

Edit Update IP Address:

You can select Yes in either the Use Server Detected IP field (recommended) or the User Specified IP
Addr
field, but not both.

With the Use Server Detected IP and User Specified IP Addr fields both set to No, the DDNS server
automatically updates the IP address of the host name(s) with the Prestige’s WAN IP address.

DDNS does not work with a private IP address. When both fields are set to No, the Prestige must have a
public WAN IP address in order for DDNS to work.

Use Server
Detected IP

Press [SPACE BAR] to select Yes and then press [ENTER] to
have the DDNS server automatically update the IP address of
the host name(s) with the public IP address that the Prestige
uses or is behind.

You can set this field to Yes whether the IP address is public or
private, static or dynamic.

Yes

User Specified IP
Addr

Press [SPACE BAR] to select Yes and then press [ENTER] to
update the IP address of the host name(s) to the IP address
specified below.

Only select Yes if the Prestige uses or is behind a static public
IP address.

No

IP Addr

Enter the static public IP address if you select Yes in the User
Specified IP Addr
field.

N/A

When you have completed this menu, press [ENTER] at the prompt “Press ENTER to Confirm…” to save
your configuration, or press [ESC] at any time to cancel.

The IP address will be updated when you reconfigure menu 1 or perform DHCP client renewal. If you have
a private WAN IP address, then you cannot use Dynamic DNS.