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Date:      Fri, 01 Dec 2000 20:08:56 +0100
From:      Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de>
To:        Jim Durham <durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: web hosting with a dynamic IP address question
Message-ID:  <3A27F748.2040400@i-clue.de>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011302214250.42314-100000@shazam.int>

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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



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