re: dynamic host
Monday, October 10, 2005 at 9:03 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Dan Sarandrea, MCSE
(7096 messages posted)
A dymanic host is an arrangement where you sign up for an account with a free Dynamic
DNS (DDNS) host service. You pick a host name, then run the service's update client
on a computer on your home network behind your router. The client monitors your
public IP address and when it changes, it tells the DDNS service which in turn keeps
the internet's DNS system up to date.
Your host name would be set up like this:
[pick_out_a_hostname.the_DDNS_service_.whatever]
So if you signed up with No-Ip.com (the one I use for my customers), your host name
(if not already taken) could be:
mario03.no-ip.org
You would set this up if you wanted to access, from the public internet, services
running on computers on your home network. Instead of having to know your public
IP address, which with most DSL and cable providers is subject to change, all you
have to know is your host name. It's the same idea that's behind a web address......you
don't know that www.annoyances.org is 209.133.53.130, but the DNS system does.
Newer routers have some DDNS configurations built-in after making agreements with
some of the many free DDNS providers out there. You don't have to use the ones in
the router.
- Written in response to:
- dynamic host (mario03: Friday, October 7, 2005 at 1:23 pm)
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