Windows – Wake on Lan utility for local only to sleep and wake up machine

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I am looking for a Wake-on-Lan utility that works locally, not via the internet (so no setting up a router for WOL) to allow for waking up AND putting to sleep a machine. I can't seem to find any. I have machines that are running Windows 7 and XP Pro.

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As Josip pointed out WOL can wake a computer up.

As for putting a computer to sleep you might look into.

VNC programs

Telnet

Back Orifice, Teamviewer, and other remote administration tools

Stoned Bookit

Not sure if any of these help but it is a start.

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Your dyndns name should resolve to the public IP of your router, so this shouldn't be a problem.

If you can use the dyndns address to connect to the router than this makes even less sense.

You should try to resolve the dyndns address:

nslookup yourname.dyndns.org

It should resolve to the same IP address as the one you pull from your router. If it doesn't than sometime is wrong with the dyndns setup (although I can't imagine what it is, unless you have multiple public IP addresses).

Usually, the name would be resolved to an IP address before any package is sent. So this shouldn't make any difference as long as the dyndns entry is updated.

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