/products/raspberry-pi/b/blog/posts/dynamic-dns---open-up-your-pi-s-webserver-to-the-worldMy guide to opening your home Pi-based web server up to the world using Dynamic DNS. Might be useful to someone - I was trying to get the Raspcontrol project page on my Pi up so I can reboot from elsewhere! I use ddclient and dnsdynamic.org to d...en-USTelligent Community 12https://community.element14.com/products/raspberry-pi/b/blog/posts/dynamic-dns---open-up-your-pi-s-webserver-to-the-worldFri, 27 Jul 2012 14:49:28 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:648647aa-2c3d-40d9-a8b9-d10b6ccd9186e14 Contributor0<p>Shouldn&#39;t you use:</p><p>use=web, web=myip.dnsdynamic.com&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; # get ip from server.</p><p>as shown in the dnsdynamic.org/api.php page you referenced ?&nbsp; </p><p>If you use</p><p>use=web, web=checkip.dyndns.org</p><p>then you&#39;re reliant on dyndns.org which is a different service altogether.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Can I also suggest that if you&#39;re using Raspcontrol and opening your system up to the internet at large you look into setting up https and blocking http ?</p><p>It appears that Raspcontrol doesn&#39;t bother encrypting your username/password so anyone who can sniff the traffic could gain control of your Pi.</p><p>Probably also a good idea to delete setup.php after you&#39;ve created your password.</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=14661&AppID=86&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">