On Tuesday 10 June 2003 8:40 am, rex wrote:
Tom Emerson
[2003-06-10 07:26]: On Sunday 08 June 2003 2:43 pm, Patrick Shanahan wrote: Tom Nelson indicates that he has a static ip address. What would he
gain from dynamic DNS services?
Ummm, it's free?
[...] You don't need your own DNS server; you should be able to use the nameservers you use now.
Well, yes, I suppose I could ask pacbell to insert the appropriate records in their DNS servers to point some arbitrary domain to my IP address, but they want $100 to do that, and $50 for each and every little change that comes along...
Many of us would give up our morning coffee for a static IP address. I can't imagine throwing one away by inserting a dynamic IP in the path.
dyndns.org works just fine with static addresses (slightly better, actually, in that my address doesn't "expire" from their database -- if I had a dynamic address that simply never changed, I'd still have to upload the fact it hasn't changed every few days) If what you're balking about is having something like "homelinux" in the middle of my "domain", well, I'm just being "cheap" [unemployment does that to you ;) ] when I'm again "flush with cash", I'll probably donate some money their way. (note also that for a small fee, much smaller than what pacbell wants, they will do a full on "yourname.tld" style domain -- should I ever feel the need...)
A couple of years ago I put up a web server on my machine (dynamic IP) using a script to upload my current IP to a page at my ISP which did nothing but redirect page hits to the current IP on my machine. It worked well.
Who is (was) the ISP? most ISP's nowadays have a hissy fit if you even hint at "running a server", this one appearently helps you along. -- Yet another Blog: http://osnut.homelinux.net