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Hitron CODA-4x8x User’s Guide
8
Advanced
This chapter describes the screens that display when you click Advanced in the
toolbar. It contains the following sections:
Advanced Overview on page 135
The Advanced: Switch Setup Screen on page 136
The Advanced: DDNS Screen on page 138
The Advanced: RIP Control Screen on page 140
8.1 Advanced Overview
This section describes some of the concepts related to the Advanced screens.
8.1.1 DDNS
The Dynamic Domain Name System allows simple, easy-to-remember names, like
domain names such as “example.com”, to be mapped on to dynamic, often-changing,
IP addresses. such as “123.123.123.123”. In the context of home and office
networking, DDNS allows you to make data and systems on your local area network
available over the Internet, via an human-friendly name (just like a domain name).
The benefits of DDNS in this context are not merely that it provides a human-friendly
name by which systems may be accessed, rather than requiring users to remember
an IP address. IP addresses assigned to customers by Internet Service Providers
often change from day to day, unlike the static IP addresses on which websites tend
to run (except those on more inexpensive shared hosting systems, usually). This
means even remembering an IP address of a system would be of only very short-
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