From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 4 9:31:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (lcmail2.lc.ca.gov [165.107.12.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 534BE37B71D for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2001 09:31:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drewt@writeme.com) Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON by lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (PMDF V5.2-27 #40821) id <0GBA00J010L5QC@lcmail2.lc.ca.gov> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 4 Apr 2001 09:31:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tagalong ([165.107.42.167]) by lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (PMDF V5.2-27 #40821) with SMTP id <0GBA004CI0L5B4@lcmail2.lc.ca.gov> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 04 Apr 2001 09:31:53 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 09:31:41 -0700 From: Drew Tomlinson Subject: RE: running web server on dynamic ip address In-reply-to: <857F15D7E3D8D3118D290008C7CF058602C975F3@mail-naeast1.brooks.com> To: "'Lee, Jaeho'" , "Freebsd-Questions (E-mail)" Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Content-type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-priority: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You need some type of service that will record your dynamic IP address and give you a DNS entry with a name. I'm sure there's several such services. The one I use is http://www.dynip.com. I also know of one at http://www.dyndns.org. In fact, the latter appears to be free where I'm paying about $32.00 US per year for DynIP. Anyway, the basic way it works is that you install client software on your machine. The client software reports your dynamic IP address and your domain name to DNS servers at the host. The host registers your name and address. Now people can find you by name. HTH, Drew -----Original Message----- From: Lee, Jaeho [mailto:Jaeho.Lee@brooks.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 9:06 AM To: Freebsd-Questions (E-mail) Subject: running web server on dynamic ip address Hello, I finally made my freebsd machine connect to ADSL. Now next question, which I can not find any book. I want to run my own web server (apache, of course) on my machine. But my ADSL provider does not give static ip. Questions, 1) Even though it is dynamic address, I can run apache and others can access the web site with given address. Right? 2) I know there is a program that makes dynamic address as like static (hold the address) on windows. Is there similar thing on FreeBSD? 3) Generally speaking. Is there anyone running web site on dynamic address? Or is it only I who has this stupid idea? Sorry for throwing many questions in one mail. Thanks, /Jaeho Lee To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message