No-ip client info

For anyone who is using no-ip to link there dynamic ip address to a constant url here is a little tip.

5 minutes is the shortest time you can have between updates to no-ip's servers. This means if your ip changes very frequently, or if it changes right after an update is sent to their servers your site will be inaccessable for 5 minutes.

I have SBC Yahoo DSL and it changes soooo frequently that half of the time when I would try to access my site it wouldn't work.

To make the time between updates shorter than 5 minutes all you need to do is find the appropriate registry key. Find the Vitalwerks folder under localcomputer/software (use the search function if you want) there's a key that says something like extern.... and has a value in milli seconds for the update time. I set mine to 60000 (1 minute). It works much better now, and so far NO-ip has not blocked my account.

If you ever change any settings in the no-ip client you will have to re-update the registry value.