From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 1 11: 8:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1D3F37B400 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 11:08:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id VAA07791; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 21:13:06 +0100 Message-ID: <3A27F748.2040400@i-clue.de> Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 20:08:56 +0100 From: Christoph Sold User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; m18) Gecko/20001130 X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jim Durham Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: web hosting with a dynamic IP address question References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jim Durham wrote: > > On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, David Banning wrote: > >> 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: >>> > > Interesting! I have been wondering about dynamic dns. What do > they do about caching name servers? I find that changing the > DNS entry takes a couple days to propagate.. You may set the time until your A and PTR records expire in your DNS zone file. Dynamic DNS usually set it to very low values (about five minutes). Thus, a change in your IP will expire from all caches in about that time. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message