Topic: Dynamic IP routing

[richard meeks]

After several interesting twists and turns with files, hardware and bios I got e-emith 4.0 to work and I am amazed just how well this has simplified my home networking.  I would like to go the next step and have my dynamic ip address automatically reported to my web site so visitors to my domain can be routed to special files at home.  I've been told there is a neat technology already worked out to do this and I was wondering what it is called so I can look it up and gain an understanding of it.

[Lloyd Keen]

Hi Richard,
    I have Tim Litwiller to thank for this one - try out www.mydomain.com, they are absolutely brilliant. You can use IP pointing or stealth redirection as well as set up aliases and administer your MX settings. The only thing is you must have a valid domain which I buy from www.gandi.net for about 12euros. When you go through the purchasing stage just point the dns servers to the mydomain name servers instead of gandi's. After you've setup up your primary website you can then purchase aditional domains and point them at i-bays on the e-smith server if you want to. I should also mention that I run my setup as a dedicated server behind a seperate firewall and it works like a dream. BTW even though I have a dynamic IP it hasn't changed from virtually the day I acquired it. Have fun
Lloyd

[Charlie Brady]

richard meeks wrote:

>  I would like to
> go the next step and have my dynamic ip address automatically
> reported to my web site so visitors to my domain can be routed
> to special files at home.  I've been told there is a neat
> technology already worked out to do this and I was wondering
> what it is called so I can look it up and gain an understanding
> of it.

There's brief mention of this in the manual:

 http://www.e-smith.org/docs/manual/4.0/app-dyndns.html

Doing a web search for "dynamic DNS" will get you lots more information.

Regards

Charlie