From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 27 08:46:23 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8DAD37B401 for ; Fri, 27 Jun 2003 08:46:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pop016.verizon.net (pop016pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.173]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF08F43FA3 for ; Fri, 27 Jun 2003 08:46:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([141.149.47.46]) by pop016.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.33 201-253-122-126-133-20030313) with ESMTP id <20030627154621.GVRZ3199.pop016.verizon.net@mac.com>; Fri, 27 Jun 2003 10:46:21 -0500 Message-ID: <3EFC66CC.7030309@mac.com> Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 11:46:20 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030612 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John DeStefano References: <20030627134501.68828.qmail@web40614.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20030627134501.68828.qmail@web40614.mail.yahoo.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.76.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at pop016.verizon.net from [141.149.47.46] at Fri, 27 Jun 2003 10:46:21 -0500 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mask IP:port with Domain Name X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 15:46:24 -0000 John DeStefano wrote: > Chuck Swiger wrote: >> There's no way to avoid the port number in the URL, then. Consider >> switching to a provider that lets you host local services... > > Does that then nullify your previous recommendations? Nope. It just means that you can only get one of the two things you asked for. > Can you recommend any such providers? Of dynamic DNS? Yes: www.dyndns.org. > By hosting "local services", do you mean DNS? No, I meant being able to run Apache on port 80. You said you didn't want to see IP or port number; the former can be solved by dynamic DNS, the latter can't be solved if your ISP blocks port 80. -- -Chuck