This post was last updated on March 11, 2026
noip.com is still around. DD-WRT is still around too, if you have hardware that supports it. But if you’re trying this in 2026, I’d suggest using OpenWrt.
In order to give people an easier way to get to the web server I set up was time to give it a hostname. For that you need a DNS service. I’ve had an account with no-ip since the last time I ran my own server in 2003. This blog started on an iMac in my apartment. That lasted for a few months until I moved the site to a hosting company because just didn’t have time to tinker with it.
Anyway I dug up my username and reset the password and logged back in. As luck would have it no-ip has a detailed tutorial with screen shots on how to set up the service with a DD-WRT router. I followed that and had a name for the server, librarymonk.zapto.org in about 5 minutes. Can’t get much simpler than that.