On Wed, 12 Jul 2000 at 16:43, Phr0zen Ice wrote:
>I've come across http://www.dyndns.org and found out that they have the
>solution.
I checked out DynDNS and a couple of other dynamic DNS providers a while
back. Basically they provide name to IP name serving. What does this mean?
>From what I gather they do NOT have the solution to your problem. Well,
perhaps to part of it, but not the main chunk. You can always do your
tests addressing your IP directly. DynDNS will just provide you with your
<viril.dyndns.org> mapped to the latest IP address you register via the
update webpage. Ports are not the problem of DynDNS anymore. When you
request for <http://viril.dyndns.org:8080/> you mean:
- use the hypertext transfer protocol
- find out what the nameserver for dyndns.org is
- talk to the nameserver of dyndns.org and ask what IP viril.dyndns.org is
- talk to the IP of viril.dyndns.org, via port 8080
So port 8080 is not a DynDNS problem but YOUR problem as the effective
administrator of viril.dyndns.org. Again I don't know a thing about
Windows2000, except that I still prefer Linux. Now that you mentioned it,
you could find out how to set your Win2k "gateway" up with something like
a port mapping facility. Port 80 is served by the Win2k box, port 81 is
picked up from one of the local workstations. Honestly, though, as you
move into the hosting arena I'd go with Linux where you can use more
realistic webserver for free: Apache (or aolserver or whatever else you
prefer). I am personally convinced that Apache does a much more reliable
job versus IIS, at a price you can't beat (free) and without as much of
those nasty bugs as IIS has.
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