Improved Dynamic DNS Support

[uptonm]

I tested out Dynamic DNS today in the SC server, and i was pleasantly rewarded with the fact that it worked... I was pretty darn happy about it. Great job with Ultra VNC, guys... however I noticed upon playing a video and watching it remotely on my customer's computer, (switching back and forth from a regular vnc connection to SC with Dyndns.org) that the speed was only maybe half, to a third as fast.

Now I'm not sure how the DynDNS is being used, but I would assume because of the speed decrease that ALL of the information is going from the server computer to dyndns.org, then back to my computer. What if it wasn't that way?

What if you had a setting when you customized the SC server, telling it that you were setting it up for dynamic dns, and one as well on the listening viewer.

Then when you ran the server, the first information it would broadcast to dyndns would be an ip address request.

this would be redirected to the viewer, which would respond back with your real WAN IP. Then the server could initiate sending of the real information to the new ip address so that any possible stateful packet inspection on the SC side firewall would be kept happy and the viewer would be able to respond and there would be a nice fast p2p connection, with dyndns.org now out of the picture.

Now if by some chance this was implimented already and i just set it up wrong, my feature request would be to have this information included in the tutorial on SC. I did also look in the FAQ's on SC and didn't see anything in there either about this type of feature, and did a search on the forums and found nothing, so I assume this type of feature hasn't been implimented yet. Thanks very much for your time and effort on this program, it is well appreciated.

Mike