Sandro Minola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Instead of manually update your IP on the website and adding a second link
(which works of course), I'd suggest to use a Dynamic DNS service like
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I'd do the following:
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This solution is much cooler because you don't have to care about the IP
Hi Frank, hi all
I'm not sure that David's suggestion of running an internal DNS server
would help. That is, it looks like the complex.wox.org name helps in
his case, but I have no such name to put in my external web page to use
as a link to my home network. Instead, I edit the external
At 2002-02-25 18:57 +0100, Sandro Minola wrote:
Hi Frank, hi all
Instead, I edit the external web page
each time I restart my DSL connection to update it to the currently
assigned external IP, e.g. http://209.142.160.132:/whatever, so
there would be nothing for a local DNS server to
Hi Christopher, hi Mike
Frank,
Scott Best found a great site that ranks dynamic DNS providers.
http://www.kvtek.com/
Please note that ez-ipupdate currently does not support the No-IP service
which is rated best on kvtek.com.
I checked the ez-ipupdate homepage and even the newest version does
Hi Frank, Hi all
However, I have a web page hosted on an external site that has a
link to my internal web server via my firewall's external IP. From
a machine outside my network, that link works fine, reaching my
internal web server. However, if I connect to the external web page
from the
Thank you, Sandro and David.
I'm not sure that David's suggestion of running an internal DNS server
would help. That is, it looks like the complex.wox.org name helps in
his case, but I have no such name to put in my external web page to use
as a link to my home network. Instead, I edit the
If what everyone else suggested isn't what you want,
use the internal ip address of the webserver instead
of the external number. As Sandro said, the ip spoofing
rules in the firewall prevent you from accessing your
internal network from the internet if you are behind the
firewall itself.
guitarlynn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If what everyone else suggested isn't what you want,
use the internal ip address of the webserver instead
of the external number.
Thank you. That sparked an idea which I think will be a reasonable
compromise for my needs. What I just did was to add a
