RE: tlug: Dynamic DNS

["Stephen Carter" <carter@example.com>]

I get the idea now, if not all the details.
nws.net is acting like a top level domain name server, only the ip addresses
can be set each time--I'm going to try that.

We could run a club server like that, couldn't we.......

Steve

>
> ---Stephen Carter <carter@example.com> wrote:
> >
> > I can tell this dynamic DNS is something really
> > great, but what exactly is it?
>
> For those people without permanent connections to the net it's
> difficult to have a static domain name. Dynamic DNS servers allow you
> to obtain a domain name even if you only use a dial-up IP address.
>
> > I checked out the www.nws.net, and that helped some,
> > but what's the whole story?
>
> Well, just as an exercise, I applied for the domain name
> jpssolutions.nws.net. Then I wrote a short shell script that fires up
> Apache and registers my current dial-up IP address with nws.net. As
> long as I'm on-line (pretty short since I don't feel like giving NTT
> more of my money ;-) you can reach my web server at
> http://jpssolutions.nws.net Once I drop the connection the server is
> gone only to return at a new IP (with the same domain name) the next
> time I run the script. Pretty nifty :)
>
> What use this has, I leave up to you....
>
> > Do I just give the name of my machine as in if my
> > machine name is gandalf, then I tell them
> > gandalf.nws.net?
>
> All you have to do is run the C program that updates nws.net's routing
> table.
>
> > Or do I have to really have a registered domain name > with JPNIC or
> some other internet domain authority?
>
> Nope, this appears to be a 0 cost way to get a static domain name with
> a dynamic dial-up IP address....
>
> How long it lasts is another question.
>
> HTH
>
> Jim S.
>
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> Jim Schweizer
> http://tlug.linux.or.jp/~jims/
>
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