Most consumer grade ISPs (cable ISPs, aDSL) use DHCP, so you have no guarantee you'll have the same IP address five minutes after you get it. Some (my own provider, Optimum Online for one) rarely change the address, but who wants to count on that always being the case?
Organizations like dyndns.org and no-ip.org have agents you can run on your system, which report back to the central DNS server when your IP address changes. For instance, you can set up yournamehere.no-ip.org for your laptop, and whenever DHCP renews your address, the agent reports back to no-ip.org, so yournamehere.no-ip.org still points to the laptop. I prefer to host my own DNS on my own server, if only to keep my memory of how to configure BIND relatively fresh. Does anyone know of a similar agent that pairs with a daemon I can run on my DNS server, to track the IP address of my own laptop and desktop boxes and point subdomain1.finknetwork.com and subdomain2.finknetwork.com to them? Thanks. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
