Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 22:40:59 -0500 From: David Banning <david@www3.pacific-pages.com> To: tim hobbs <uniquely_tim@yahoo.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: web hosting with a dynamic IP address question Message-ID: <20001125224059.A607@www3.pacific-pages.com> In-Reply-To: <20001125175435.16932.qmail@web5305.mail.yahoo.com>; from uniquely_tim@yahoo.com on Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 09:54:35AM -0800 References: <20001125175435.16932.qmail@web5305.mail.yahoo.com>
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Thanks for your response - Before I do all that - is it possible to find out what my running IP address currently is, and access my computer by typing http://123.456.7.8/myfiles.html or some such thing in my browser? On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 09:54:35AM -0800, tim hobbs wrote: > Hi David, > > > > I would like to call into my computer and access it > > like a web host > > from somewhere else on the web. My thought is that > > this should be possible > > if my IP address is known. > > This is how I am doing it, if this helps: > > 1. I have an account with http://www.namesecure.com > where I registered my "www.mydomain.com". The > registrar offers a "redirection service" that allows > me to point "www.mydomain.com" to a specific IP > address or domain. > > 2. I went to http://www.justlinux.com and setup a > dynamic IP account as "mydomain.penguinpowered.com". I > tried some others like dyndns.org but they all let me > down is some way. JustLinux just works. > > 3. I went back to the registrar and setup > "www.mydomain.com" to point to > "mydomain.penguinpowered.com". > > 4. I got the IP update script from justlinux.com > called "jlclient-2.0" and installed it. Running it as > "jlclient -c " gives it the password and user id for > the justlinux account. > > 5. I added a script to my startup scripts that calls > "jlclient -u" to update the IP after the ppp has > dialed in . The ppp is enabled by the usual entries in > /etc/rc.conf. > > I'm running on DSL and it's pretty fast to negotiate > the PPPoE connection. The speed of connection could be > a factor in a startup script so you may need to > investigate the best mode to use for the PPP. I am > using the "background" mode. > > Hope this helps, > > Tim Hobbs > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. > http://shopping.yahoo.com/ > -- Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. -- H. L. Mencken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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