Requirements:

• JDK 1.5 or higher
• 50 MB RAM
• 60 MB HDD
• OS: Tested with Windows, Linux, Mac OS X .

Ports:

Java Dynamic DNS Client uses per default the following ports:

• 8081: [IN] MxHttpAdapter: http port for web interface access.
• 8082: [IN/OUT] FaceIpMonitor: loop check of Face Ip.
• 8081: [IN/OUT] DnsMonitor: loop check of zones
• 8083: [IN/OUT] BChecker: polling by buddy
• 9700: [OUT] BChecker: JXTA network access

Please make sure that the “IN” ports are correctly configured in your router amd firewall and that the OUT ports are configured in your firewall.

Installation:

• Download the Java Dynamic Dns Client from sourceforge
• Unzip the file
• Goto the /bat/<your-os> directory 

Running

• To run as console application: call runmx.bat on windows or runmx.sh on linux or mac. Please check that you have a correct java installation. eventually you will have to set the path to the java exe in the wrapper.conf file (example wrapper.java.command=Z:\java\jdk1.6.0_03\bin\java)
• It is recommended to first start it as a console application. When everything is running as expected stop the application and start it as a service.
• To run as demon: call installMxService.bat to install the service on windows, call startMxService.bat or startMxService.sh to start the service.

Inserting your zone:

For dhis.org see here.

For other providers:

• call your browser on: http://127.0.0.1:8081/jmx.browser-1.2.0 default user name is mx default password is mx. or for the new ajax inteface http://127.0.0.1:8081/ajax4jmx/DnsMonitor.html
• click on DnsMonitor:name=myZone
• set the zone, provider, user and password. click update.
• Check that your DnsMonitor data is correct
• Check that the FaceIpMonitor is up and that the face ip is correct by calling for example http://whatismyip.com
• set Stop to false and click the update button for the older interface or just select the zone and click start.

Cyclic Dns Monitoring should now be running.