Quoting Ian Pascoe <[email protected]>: > Morning All > > This is somewhat uncharted terrotory for me, in fact I know that > little on the subject I don't even know the correct questions to > ask! However, let's hope this makes sense! > > If I wanted to set up a file / mail server at home, and be able to > connect to it through the internet, if the ADSL connection is > dynamic, how does the DNS server (I presume that's the only way of > maintaining the link) know the correct IP address to link to after > the ADSL connection has been dropped and comes up again with a new > IP address? > > I presume that if the servre was physically moved to a different > location, it wouldn't matter as long as whatever method satisfys the > previous question, it would just re-connect itself and be off? > > This is something I've been thinking about doing for some time, and > if anyone can point me to some resources that would get me started > so that I can build a basic understanding up, and then start to be > able to ask the right questions, I'd be grateful.
Who is your ISP? Quite often these days you'll get a free static IP added to your account either as part of your package or if you ask nicely. If you can't get a static IP, I've used DynDNS.com in the past sucessfully and a number of routers now come with the ability to perform DynDNS updates. HTH, M. -- Matthew Macdonald-Wallace [email protected] http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk/ -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
