Tom Emerson <osnut@pacbell.net> [2003-06-10 10:56]:
On Tuesday 10 June 2003 8:40 am, rex wrote:
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...)
Have you looked at www.mydomain.com ? They do free email & URL redirection, and you can get "yourname.tld" from them for about $10/yr. They might let you specify your fixed IP instead of a URL. Failing that, you could redirect to the page your ISP provides and redirect from there to your box. With a static IP address there would be no need to resort to something like the script I used to automatically update the page at each dialup.
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.
They went out of business some time ago. :( However, there was no help from them involved, other than that they provided a free web page to each user which I used to redirect hits to my machine. They might have objected if the traffic level had become significant. As it was just a test to see if I could create a dynamic page using PHP & Octave (to do some mathematical calculations), the traffic was insignificant. -rex