Static IP address Doesn't work - Help with DynDNS?

[JDog888]

I have followed portforward.com's tutorial and done everything how it is supposed to be done. My LAN IP is ALWAYS 192.168.1.5. But my external IP address keeps changing:

IP Addresses:
Day1: 78.150.119.151
Day2: 78.150.119.44
Day3: 78.150.116.82

Can ANYONE help? I have a Huwei Echolife HG520b router which seems to hate me

[Mooga]

It's quite common for an ISP to change your IP address.
There is nothing you can do besides:
1) Contact your ISP and request a static IP. This is normally very expensive.
2) Use a Dynamic DNS such as no-ip.com or a similar site and give people your DNS name rather then your IP address.

[JDog888]

(08-22-2010, 12:22 AM)Mooga Wrote:  It's quite common for an ISP to change your IP address.
There is nothing you can do besides:
1) Contact your ISP and request a static IP. This is normally very expensive.
2) Use a Dynamic DNS such as no-ip.com or a similar site and give people your DNS name rather then your IP address.

I tried the Dynaminc DNS but I can't seem to get it to work, any help with that??

[Arjen]

It's not that hard. Please tell us what you did so far.

[JDog888]

I have created a account at DynDNS. I made a hostname for my LAN IP, anything else?

[Beaverbeliever]

You need to have it point to your external IP, not your internal.

[JDog888]

(08-22-2010, 01:41 PM)Beaverbeliever Wrote:  You need to have it point to your external IP, not your internal.

I have no static IP though, how does THAT work?

[Beaverbeliever]

http://www.dyndns.com/services/dns/dyndns/

Read that

[JDog888]

Like this?

[Beaverbeliever]

No, you need to use your external IP. DynDNS has a piece of software that will update your hostname to your external IP if it changes, so you don't have to constantly worry about keeping it up to date.

[Arjen]

JDog888, the reason that you made an account at dyndns is that you have a dynamic (external) IP address. Dyndns is a service that will check your current IP address and translate that to the url you have chosen. You filled in an internal address again. I suggest you check out http://www.whatismyip.com/ for the IP address you have now.
People can join your server using the url. Something like connect JDog888.kicks-ass.org:27015;password ilikeknakworsten in console.

[JDog888]

Thanks a bunch, for some reason the wrong pic kept getting uploaded but I DID put in my External IP

[JDog888]

Hey for some reason no-one can connect still. It says : Connection failed after 4 retries. and Yes, I have forwarded all my ports