[Xitami] IP numbers,etc.

[Warren 'Llama' Ernst]

Has anyone who is using Dynhost.com as a dynamic IP name service noticed
that it seems to have died yesterday? I've had to have my name provider
autoforward to my IP address rather than my name of lllama.dynhost.com, and
get my mail routed my HotMail account (which I can't stand.)


Any thoughts?

-Warr


----- Original Message -----
From: "Marcio Marchini" <mqm@magma.ca>
To: <xitami@lists.xitami.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 10:50 AM
Subject: RE: [Xitami] IP numbers,etc.


> | But I am wondering, is it possible to give a page
> | a more durable address - say, a URL or a domain
> | name? I'm sure the answer is yes, but can anyone
> | give me a pointer on how to make this happen?
>
>
> You can register a domain ($20 / year) and then use www.zoneedit.com to
host
> the DNS service for you (free).
>
> Then you configure the computer which has a dynamic IP to tell zoneedit
when
> its IP changes. I do that from a Linux box. I run a script every 10
minutes
> (because I do not have a hook for when my IP changes at the Linksys
router, so I
> just do it blindly / periodically). All it does is to visit a URL. Just by
> visiting that URL at ZoneEdit they update the IP address for my domain.
So, the
> name will be constant but the IP may change as often as you want. All this
is
> documented at ZoneEdit, you've got to read the instructions there.
>
> So, I just give friends the name for my computer (say www.mycomputer.com)
and
> they can connect to it, even though I have a dynamic IP with an ADSL
provider.
>
>
> marcio
>
>
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