INTELLINET NETWORK ICC-130 User Manual - Manual (Page 68)

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Network Advanced - Bonjour
UPnP Bonjour is a service that, just like UPnP, helps to find the network camera
on the network. Bonjour is available for Windows, but is more commonly used
for MacOS. Refer to section “4.1.2 MacOS” for additional information on the
usage.
Bonjour:
On: Enables the service (on by default).
Off: Disables the service
Device name:
Enter the name of your
camera here. This is the
name the Bonjour service
will display. If you have
more than one camera
installed in your network,
this is an easy way to
differentiate among the
cameras.
Network Advanced - DDNS
If you are not planning on connecting to the network camera over a remote
connection, but only in your local network, you can skip this section.
Dynamic DNS is a network service that provides the capability for a networked
device, such as a router or computer system, to notify a domain name server to
change, in real time (ad-hoc) the active DNS configuration of its configured
host names, addresses or other information stored in DNS.
In simpler terms: Users of private Internet services are often faced with a
problem: The ISP typically changes the IP address assigned to the user based
on a time interval. This may be as often as once every 24 hours or as seldom
as once every 30 days. For the average user this is not a problem. However, if
you want to be able to connect to the local camera (e.g., in your house) from a
remote location (e.g., the office), you need to know under which Internet
address the camera can be reached. However, you don’t know what the current
Internet IP address is. So you are beginning to see the problem.
DDNS solves this problem by allowing you to create a domain name for your
home network, which you can always use to access the camera. To use the
DDNS function, you will need to do the following two things.
1. Create a DDNS hostname with a DDNS service provider
2. Set up a DDNS client in the home network that contacts the DDNS service
provider and updates the IP information.