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  █▌     -   THE BEST FREE DOMAIN & DNS HOSTING SERVICE REVIEWS   -          █▌
 █▌                          & INSTALL INSTRUCTIONS                           █▌
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 █ HOW TO SETUP A FREE DOMAIN TO POINT TO YOUR OWN BOX:                       ▐▌
 █ If you run a web, FTP server, etc. from your box and want a free domain    ▐▌
 █ instead of your IP use a domain name server. This article is only about    ▐▌
 █ the free domain name servers and how to set those up.                      ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █                          ___________..___________                          ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ I'm still trying to find a replacement for DynDNS; no longer free service. ▐▌
 █ The simple requirements for a 5 ***** star rating:                         ▐▌
 █ A. They offer a free domain with a free DNS service.                       ▐▌
 █ B. It has a proper 'Update Client/s' for both static and dynamic IPs for   ▐▌
 █    multiple OSs.                                                           ▐▌
 █ As I try various services I'll add them to this list even if they don't    ▐▌
 █ meet the requirements so that you don't waste your time trying them as I   ▐▌
 █ have.                                                                      ▐▌
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 █                          ___________..___________                          ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ 1.  DYNDNS - Was the best but no longer free. For those using the paid     ▐▌
 █     service HERE is the tutorial how to install the Linux Update Client.   ▐▌
 █ 2.  NAMECHEAP.COM  *                                                       ▐▌
 █ 3.  NO-IP.COM ***                                                          ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ I'll review these other free DNS servers, when I have the time to try each ▐▌
 █ myself, that I read work well (?):                                         ▐▌
 █ freedns.afraid.org, dnslookup.me, dns4.pro, dns.he.net, cloudns.net, and   ▐▌
 █ rage4.com (less than 250,000 requests per month free).                     ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █                          ___________..___________                          ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ 2. NAMECHEAP.COM:  *                                                       ▐▌
 █ `````````````````````                                                      ▐▌
 █ - They do not provide a free domain; only the free DNS service for your    ▐▌
 █   own domain.                                                              ▐▌
 █ - Update Client is for Windows only but it does have an option to enter    ▐▌
 █   an IP to update and not just auto detect present IP. This would work     ▐▌
 █   well for Win users that have a remote Linux server with a static IP.     ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █                          ___________..___________                          ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ 3. NO-IP.COM ***                                                           ▐▌
 █ ````````````````                                                           ▐▌
 █ Great service ONLY for dynamic IPs that change at least every 29 days.     ▐▌
 █ Pros: Up to 3 hostnames, e-mail support and an update client.              ▐▌
 █ Cons: If your IP hasn't changed within 30 days you must login to the       ▐▌
 █ website and manually update it every 30 days or your free hostname will be ▐▌
 █ deleted (or dynamic IPs reboot your router to acquire a new IP for it to   ▐▌
 █ update). The update client only updates your No-IP account if your IP has  ▐▌
 █ changed. You cannot force an update every x days. I want to use it on a    ▐▌
 █ server with a static IP so No-IP isn't the solution for me. :(             ▐▌
 █ That is why many people, even with dynamic IPs lose their free domain      ▐▌
 █ while running the update client not realizing this rule.                   ▐▌
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 █ INSTALL NOIP UPDATE CLIENT LINUX DEBIAN:                                   ▐▌
 █ ````````````````````````````````````````                                   ▐▌
 █ Very easy, here are my notes:                                              ▐▌
 █ (Note Only: The Update Client uses port 80, port 443, and port 8245.)      ▐▌
 █ wget http://www.noip.com/client/linux/noip-duc-linux.tar.gz                ▐▌
 █ tar xzvf noip-duc-linux.tar.gz                                             ▐▌
 █ cd noip-2.1.9-1                                                            ▐▌
 █ cat README.FIRST | less                                                    ▐▌
 █ make                                                                       ▐▌
 █ su                                                                         ▐▌
 █ make install                                                               ▐▌
 █ You'll then be prompted for your login name, then pass you used to create  ▐▌
 █ your no-ip account.                                                        ▐▌
 █ Then prompted update interval which is in minutes, not days:               ▐▌
 █ Please enter an update interval:[30]                                       ▐▌
 █ Do you wish to run something at successful update? N                       ▐▌
 █ Output:                                                                    ▐▌
 █ New configuration file '/tmp/no-ip2.conf' created.                         ▐▌
 █ mv /tmp/no-ip2.conf /usr/local/etc/no-ip2.conf                             ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ Set perms on it:                                                           ▐▌
 █ chmod 700 /usr/local/bin/noip2                                             ▐▌
 █ chown root:root /usr/local/bin/noip2                                       ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ To launch the client in the background: noip2                              ▐▌
 █ Display info: noip2 -S                                                     ▐▌
 █ Output will be similar to:                                                 ▐▌
 █ 1 noip2 process active.                                                    ▐▌
 █ Process 27371, started as /home/mewbies/noip-2.1.9-1/noip2,(version 2.1.9) ▐▌
 █ Using configuration from /usr/local/etc/no-ip2.conf                        ▐▌
 █ Last IP Address set 123.45.678.901                                         ▐▌
 █ Account mewbies                                                            ▐▌
 █ configured for:                                                            ▐▌
 █         host  mewbies.no-ip.biz                                            ▐▌
 █ Updating every 30 minutes via /dev/eth1 with NAT enabled.                  ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ TO AUTO RUN NOIP AT BOOTUP:                                                ▐▌
 █ ```````````````````````````                                                ▐▌
 █ cp debian.noip2.sh /usr/local/bin                                          ▐▌
 █ chmod +x /usr/local/bin/debian.noip2.sh                                    ▐▌
 █ To view if it is running:                                                  ▐▌
 █ ps -ewwo pid,args | grep noip2                                             ▐▌
 █ Output similar to:                                                         ▐▌
 █ 19149 grep noip2                                                           ▐▌
 █ 27371 /usr/local/bin/noip2                                                 ▐▌
 █ exit                                                                       ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ TO UNINSTALL NOIP:                                                         ▐▌
 █ ``````````````````                                                         ▐▌
 █ su                                                                         ▐▌
 █ rm /usr/local/bin/debian.noip2.sh                                          ▐▌
 █ rm /usr/local/bin/noip2                                                    ▐▌
 █ rm /usr/local/etc/no-ip2.conf                                              ▐▌
 █ exit                                                                       ▐▌
 █ cd ~                                                                       ▐▌
 █ rm -rf noip-duc-linux.tar.gz noip-2.1.9-1                                  ▐▌
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 █ If you find mistakes, have suggestions, and or questions please post at    ▐▌
 █ mewbies forum HERE - thank you.                                            ▐▌
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 █ Last update on 08 Nov '13                                                  ▐▌
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