Hi Bruce, Jay
I have used no-ip for many years now. Not on a large scale, but in a
number of small installations (including my own).
It has worked reasonably well for me. The biggest issue I've had is
that the update client (a small application that you have to run on a
machine 'within' your own LAN) has not been 100% reliable on the Mac.
It has always tended to stall on occasion. I'm not sure if recent
upgrades have fixed this. For me this has not been a major problem;
my main use has been remote admin of databases, and generally I could
prompt the client to manually run the update client before I did any
work.
You are limited to domain names that are available via no-ip.
Generally I'd say this is a very useful (and free) service. I have
registered domains through no-ip also (which is of course a paid
service) and have been happy with that.
HTH
Steve
On 13 Jun 2008, at 05:43, Bruce Herbach wrote:
The second issue is getting your website set up with a DNS name.
There are a number of services that will register a domain name for
you and work with a Dynamic address. They update the ip address
associated with your domain name very frequently so you can be
found. This site provides that service. http://www.no-ip.com/
Please note, I haven't used this company so I can't recommend
their service The URL is included as an example of the service you
will need. You will have to do some research to select a provider.
