Go to http://freedns.afraid.org/dynamic/ and login with your normal username and password for the freedns service. Click "Direct URL" on the domain you would like to be set to your WAN IP address. Copy everything from the right of the ? in the address bar.
Router Settings:
DDNS Service: freedns.afraid.org
User Name: USERNAME
Password: PASSWORD
Host Name: yourdomain.com,What_You_Copied_Before
Force Update Interval 10
(Note: Since afraid.org doesn't require a username and password when doing a "wget-style" update, you can also just do the following to keep from exposing your username and password:
User Name: guest
Password: guest)
Afraid.org works by allowing users to mark their domains as 1) public, allowing anyone to attach a subdomain to it at will, 2) private, allowing anyone to request a subdomain, and 3) Stealth, a premium feature allowing you to hide your domains from the registry altogether.
I've been happily using it for years, and Josh is very responsive if you have problems or questions.
Thanks for the recommendation, I use no-ip ( http://freedns.no-ip.com/ ) did not know about FreeDNS back when I set it up when dyndns got annoying, but no-ip has been fine.
If anyone here is using DD-WRT, take a look at these instructions before trying to set up your freedns subdomain (needs a token instead of login/password): extracted from http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/DDNS_-_How_to_setup_Cus...
Go to http://freedns.afraid.org/dynamic/ and login with your normal username and password for the freedns service. Click "Direct URL" on the domain you would like to be set to your WAN IP address. Copy everything from the right of the ? in the address bar.
Router Settings: DDNS Service: freedns.afraid.org User Name: USERNAME Password: PASSWORD Host Name: yourdomain.com,What_You_Copied_Before Force Update Interval 10
(Note: Since afraid.org doesn't require a username and password when doing a "wget-style" update, you can also just do the following to keep from exposing your username and password: User Name: guest Password: guest)