Can't connect using DynDNS

[James Weatherall]

Michael,

DNS has nothing to do with whether or not a host supports to pings.

Servers can accept incoming connections even if they are not pingable.

It's most likely that you simply have a firewall between your viewer and
server computers, and that it is blocking both pings and TCP/IP connections
to the server.

Regards,

Wez @ RealVNC Ltd.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com 
> [mailto:vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com] On Behalf Of Michael Murray
> Sent: 07 February 2006 14:02
> To: vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
> Subject: Can't connect using DynDNS
> 
> I just signed up for DynDNS so that I can have a static 
> domain address for 
> dynamic IP my ISP assigns me.  I have that set up correctly 
> along with port 
> forwarding from my router.  However, I recently found out 
> that you can't 
> ping a DynDNS address.  I also saw that if you can't ping, 
> RealVNC won't 
> connect.  What can I do?  Thanks.
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