Jewish Nanny-Cam

[Yedidyah Bar-David]

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 02:11:41PM +0300, geoffrey mendelson wrote:
> 
> On Sep 12, 2011, at 1:59 PM, Steve G. wrote:
> >
> >Could someone recommend a security system that would allow me to
> >keep an eye on the place from the US or Central America? Is there
> >a system that I can connect wirelessly to the DSL modem, which
> >will broadcast its name or ip address for access (without a
> >membership in a for-fee service)? If not what hardware/software do
> >you recommend for ubuntu (preferably) or windows xp that can
> >accomplish the same through the computer?
> 
> For that I use DYNDNS.org. They allow you up to 5 names (per free
> membership) using their domains. It's not very good for a commercial
> operation, but for someone who wants what is a random domain name
> it's fine. Every router I have seen in the last 5 years supports
> them out of the box.
> 
> If you wanted to keep your own domain name, you can use them for the
> DNS servers. It's about $30 a year, but they only take credit cards,
> not paypal.

And for that matter, there are other providers that give you dns hosting
for free too, for a few domains - there was a thread about them here
some time ago, and a few I can recall - zoneedit, afraid.org, dnsexit.

About monitoring software - I never used any, but there are a few for
linux, probably built into ubuntu. apt-cache search on my Debian Squeeze
finds camstream and zoneminder.
-- 
Didi