I use dyndns.org myself for some low-value serving from my home. It works, but I run into two issues with it: 1) my comcast IP address rarely changes, so unless I buy a paid subscription I have to log into my account at dyndns and "touch" the domain name there to keep it from expiring after 30 days of no changes. 2) dyndns is constantly (monthly or so) emailing me telling me they are under a DoS attack and will be unavailable for a day or so.
You've got to decide if you can deal with these hassles. I've also used tzo.com for dynamic DNS. They cost $25/year if I remember correctly, but they seem to be more reliable. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew M. Langmead Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 8:50 AM To: Joel Gwynn Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] My IP On Dec 30, 2003, at 8:25 AM, Joel Gwynn wrote: > Hey all. I connect from work via ssh to my home computer, which is > Comcast broadband. My IP rarely changes, but I'm worried about the > one day I'm at work and need something from home, and my IP has > changed. Why not use one of those dynamic DNS services like <http://www.dyndns.org/> Some appliance routers support sending updates to dyndns when their IP address changes. If you are using some sort of Unix box as the firewall and NAT-ing device, then you could use one of their updating scripts on the firewall itself. To get the non NAT-ed IP address, you either need to fetch the external address from the machine doing that NAT-ing, or have a machine behind the firewall to connect to an external machine and have that external machine call getpeername() on the connection. (for CGI, the results of getpeername() are shown in the REMOTE_ADDR environment variable.) _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
