Mitch,
Thank you for your suggestion but, unfortunately, my IP address at the far end changes several times a day. What you suggest is great for a work around but is inconvenient and time consuming to enter the new IP address into all of the clients I have here every time the distant end changes. In addition to my rotor, Steppir and antenna switch, I have things such as my VOIP telephone OPX line, IP Camera, Etc., none of which have the ability to update DDNS. There are just too many clients to be updated manually so often.
On the other hand, you have inspired me. Instead of doing what I suggested, I could reverse my thinking and put a RemoteRig DDNS host name into all of the clients here where I am located. They should resolve just fine but if the RemoteRig failed I might find myself in the same fix without any backup. Also, this would add unanticipated traffic for the RemoteRig DDNS servers. My little bit of traffic might not be a problem but if many others decided to do this, it might not be appreciated. I have a feeling that multiple devices for updating the DDNS server, whichever one I end up using, will be more reliable.
Any thoughts on this?
Thank you,
Bob, W7KWS