On my cable connection at home, I have a little cheapo 4-port Netgear router/NAT/Firewall thingy that can automatically login to the provider's PPOE login, AND it can apparently also send some data to dyndns.org to tell it what IP number it got, which then apparently will automatically appear in the DNS hosted by dyndns.
However I have also noted that the IP number I get is pretty stable, i.e. it has only changed once when the provider changed the whole subnet they where handing out. Still it looks like a good idea and I am going to explore it soon. The 'FTP a file to the static server' idea has a main failing I can think of; - if it's just a redirect, then if you type like http://www.domain.com/somefile and it just redirects you to http://192.168.0.1/somefile (ignoring the actual prive network number I used ans assume it's a reachable one) then when the reader bookmarks it and you change IP their bookmark would stop working. - you'd have to use the stable server to 'tunnel' or 'proxy' (not sure what the correct term is) to your machine so that all the urls look like they come from http://www.domain.com, like the way that those come.to and go.to domains work ... so your remote machine would still take all the traffic hits. Maybe the free website company will already do this for you, but you're still reliant on how fast that machine and it's pipe is so you basically might as well use it anyway. regs scot. > -----Original Message----- > From: Hal Humphrey [mailto:hal_humphrey@;yahoo.com] > Sent: Wednesday, 13 November 2002 05:10 > To: JDJList > Subject: [jdjlist] Re: DHCP Hosted Server > > > a few years ago, a friend said he was going to try this one: > www.dyndns.org I don't know if it worked or not or if he found a > better solution. > > --- Andrew Rendle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear All > > > > I have a server with 1mBit Broadband connection that unfortunately > > has a > > DHCP allocated IP address on which I wish to host my JBoss > > installation. > > > > I also have a free website that could be redirected to my IP address. > > > > I have come up with a scheme but I don't know how to do it, as > > follows: > > > > When JBoss starts up it inspects the IP addresses that it is > > listening on > > and creates a file/page which it then FTP's to the free web site to > > form the > > redirection back to the JBoss server. I expect to only send the new > > page > > when the servers IP address changes which will probably only happen > > on a > > server reboot. > > > > Sounds easy if you say it quickly!!! Has anybody attempted to do such > > a > > thing? Can you help? > > > > Regards > > > > Andy Rendle > > > > > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________ > > To change your JDJList options, please visit: > > http://www.sys-con.com/java/list.cfm > > > > Be respectful! Clean up your posts before replying > > ____________________________________________________ > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > U2 on LAUNCH - Exclusive greatest hits videos > http://launch.yahoo.com/u2 > > ____________________________________________________ > To change your JDJList options, please visit: > http://www.sys-con.com/java/list.cfm > > Be respectful! Clean up your posts before replying > ____________________________________________________ > > ____________________________________________________ To change your JDJList options, please visit: http://www.sys-con.com/java/list.cfm Be respectful! Clean up your posts before replying ____________________________________________________
