Hi all,

3 thing covered here.
- Free TELKOM ADSL ROUTER reboot tool
- Free Dynamic DNS
- Free Domain name

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Free REBOOT TELKOM ADSL ROUTER
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The biometrics.co.za tool works but seems to cost money, so here is my free work around.

To reboot your Telkom ADSL Pots router you basically want to execute the /cgi-bin/brestart.exe web page that runs on the router.

You can use the WGET tool which is a free download.
Windows Binary = http://www.interlog.com/~tcharron/wgetwin.html
Other Binaries = http://www.wget.org

The command would look like this ... ( Between the quotes )
"wget -T 10 -w 10 -t 1 -q --http-user=root --http-passwd=root http://192.168.10.200/cgi-bin/brestart.exe"

The above line may wrap. Substitute the real username and password and ip address where required.

So get this to work then put in a batch file and use the a scheduler to launch this batch file every 18 - 24 hours. Windows has a build in task scheduler.

Nice thing about this solution is it can run off any PC ( Windows or not ) from the LAN behind the router.

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Free Dynamic DNS
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Others have mentioned some good free options like www.dyndns.org etc ....

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Free Domain name
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Go to www.za.net(free) or co.za(not free) do a who is for a nice URL vistit www.mydomain.com set everything up. Go back to www.za.net and submit you request. Once all of that is working and you want to host smtp, ftp, or web: alias your pretty looking domain name to the dynamic one you choose at www.dyndns.org

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For those beginners out there ... all the sites mentioned above provide some in-depth help and FAQs

Good luck,
Hugh
hugh@magic.za.net