On Nov 12, 2007 12:59 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10-Nov-07, at 7:28 PM, Aman Mathur wrote: > > > 1) Is this ip address of mine a static ip address ?. If not , then why > > does it stay the same all the time ? > > In the first place, please put a meaningful subject line - this is > not a Triband Query, it is a question of hosting a website with a > dynamic IP. You do not have a static IP. The router you use has an > internal IP - 192.168.1.x or something, and you are on the same lan > as that. So your IP is also 192.168.1.y. The router has an external > IP which will change each time you reconnect to the net. > > > > 2) If I want to host my website on my computer which anyone on the > > internet can access, how do i go about it ? . I have some basic > > idea of > > port forwarding and read some of the tutes on www.portforward.com, > > which were really informative, but im still not sure how i can host a > > website on my computer which anyone can access. > > If you do port forwarding, your site will appear on the dynamic IP > you have got. Which means that the IP of your site will change > everytime you reconnect. Which means that you cannot host a domain on > the site since no dns service will service a dynamic domain. You > would probably also get the IP blacklisted for hosting on a dynamic > ip. For your friends, you can do port forwarding and phone them to > tell them which IP they need to go to. >
It takes Rs. 1000/year for a static IP. Well worth it given the headaches or unreliability of dyndns updating your ip address. Also, the time taken to write a script which will determine your assigned ip, and email you if that ip has changed will definitely cost more than 1000. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
