From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 8 16:25:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA17883 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 16:25:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail (mail.bcpl.lib.md.us [204.255.212.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA17855 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 16:25:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ppp25.bcpl.lib.md.us by mail (5.0/SMI-SVR4) id AA10660; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 19:26:12 +0500 Received: by ppp25.bcpl.lib.md.us with Microsoft Mail id <01BB6D03.35704420@ppp25.bcpl.lib.md.us>; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 19:25:23 -0400 Message-Id: <01BB6D03.35704420@ppp25.bcpl.lib.md.us> From: Anil John To: "'Jim Dennis'" Cc: "questions@freebsd.org" Subject: RE: Dial up (dynamic IP) Web Server - Possible? Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 19:24:57 -0400 Encoding: 29 TEXT Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jim Dennis[SMTP:jim@starshine.org] wrote: > > I think you are suffering from a fundamental misunderstanding > of how internet services in general (and the web in particular) > are supposed to work. Jim, Thank you for your detailed clarification of how internet services in general (and the web in particular) work. > Do you want to just play with a server that you can access > "from the outside"? You can do that by bringing up your connection > and pointing your browser at the dynamic IP address. Do you want > to play with apache add-in modules? You can do that on the > localhost anyway. Exactly. This is just for my amusement. I am new to Unix/FreeBSD and to Web Servers and I figured that setting something like this up would be a good way for me to learn about both. My provider drops connections after a 3 hour time frame so I would not know what dynamic IP address to point to, from the outside, if I exceed that time frame. > So, what are you planning on publishing on your pages? > Nothing that is of earth shattering import :). Anil