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From: David Banning <david@www3.pacific-pages.com>
To: tim hobbs <uniquely_tim@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: web hosting with a dynamic IP address question
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Thanks for your response -=20

Before I do all that - is it possible to find out what my running
IP address currently is, and access my computer by typing
http://123.456.7.8/myfiles.html

or some such thing in my browser?


On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 09:54:35AM -0800, tim hobbs wrote:
> Hi David,
>=20
>=20
> > I would like to call into my computer and access it
> > like a web host
> > from somewhere else on the web.  My thought is that
> > this should be possible
> > if my IP address is known. =20
>=20
> This is how I am doing it, if this helps:
>=20
> 1. I have an account with http://www.namesecure.com
> where I registered my "www.mydomain.com". The
> registrar offers a "redirection service" that allows
> me to point "www.mydomain.com" to a specific IP
> address or domain.=20
>=20
> 2. I went to http://www.justlinux.com and setup a
> dynamic IP account as "mydomain.penguinpowered.com". I
> tried some others like dyndns.org but they all let me
> down is some way. JustLinux just works.
>=20
> 3. I went back to the registrar and setup
> "www.mydomain.com" to point to
> "mydomain.penguinpowered.com".
>=20
> 4. I got the IP update script from justlinux.com
> called "jlclient-2.0" and installed it. Running it as
> "jlclient -c " gives it the password and user id for
> the justlinux account.=20
>=20
> 5. I added a script to my startup scripts that calls
> "jlclient -u" to update the IP after the ppp has
> dialed in . The ppp is enabled by the usual entries in
> /etc/rc.conf=18.
>=20
> I'm running on DSL and it's pretty fast to negotiate
> the PPPoE connection. The speed of connection could be
> a factor in a startup script so you may need to
> investigate the best mode to use for the PPP. I am
> using the "background" mode.
>=20
> Hope this helps,
>=20
> Tim Hobbs
>=20
>=20
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