On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 7:50 AM, Girish Venkatachalam <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 8:58 PM, balaji sivanath <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Hi, >> I dont have money to buy domain or interested so, I installed apache in my >> system, Registered with freedns.afraid.org and assigned a subdomain for my >> ipaddress. Now anyone using that domain name can access the site hosted in >> my system. >> >> I did this for learning purpose and also it is easy to share any files to my >> friends by asking them to download from my server instead of uploading to >> another site and sending a link to them. >> >> In order to shorten the subdomain name to "xyz.co.cc", I did registration in >> co.cc and thought to use url forwarding option but they said my ip address >> is in blocked list and inorder to host server i have to signup in bsnl. >> >> My question is hosting webserver and using freedns to allow people to access >> my system is legal or not? >> Is there anyother way to host webserver in my system other than above >> method? >> > > Without static IP you cannot do anything. > > It is a must. Dynamic IPs have a lot of problems. You can even run a > web server by simple port forwarding with dyndns IP update with a > simple basic ADSL connection. > I am doing this only. Using an updater client because of dynamic IP.
> But it won't work well. Just for learning purpose how it works.. (after hosting a site in my system & will tell friend to access it. If it works i will say "hiyaa jolly:) " thats all.. not going to do any serious work) > > It is legal of course but won't serve much. > > -Girish > -- > G3 Tech > Networking appliance company > web: http://g3tech.in mail: [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > ILUGC Mailing List: > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
