Date: 08 Mar 2000 13:18:58 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <lowell@world.std.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing apache with a dynamic IP address Message-ID: <rd6ya7tfhpp.fsf@world.std.com> In-Reply-To: Peter Schwenk's message of Wed, 08 Mar 2000 10:41:39 -0500 References: <F388E1BD1E11D211BD850008C7F4A5DE0253009C@TEBEX106> <38C674B3.C11E5127@math.udel.edu>
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Peter Schwenk <schwenk@math.udel.edu> writes: > If you want to access your website from the outside world, then you need a > static address, but if you are just doing development, and you will be running > the browser on the same box as the server, then you don't. You would access > the site from 'localhost', the loopback address. Not quite true. You don't need a static IP address to host a public web server. All you need is a static domain name. The ISP can change your IP address all they want, but if they keep a constant domain name pointing at whatever address you're currently using, you can run your web server fine from that. As a general rule, IP addresses aren't for human consumption. If you need to know what they are (particularly in a DHCP-configured environment), you're probably not using your DNS well. [Of course, I'm assuming that your ISP configures your domain name at all, keeps it up to date, and supplies reverse maps. Many do not.] > "Ash, Uriel" wrote: > > > Hi Everyone; > > > > I host a website using my local ISP. The ISP uses DHCP to give it's clients > > IP addresses. I want to install apache web server on my FreeBSD box at home > > to see how it works and to play a bit. Do I need to get a static IP address > > to use with my BSD box\server or is there any way I can use the address my > > current ISP assigns me via DHCP as the adderess to use with Apache?? > > Thanks > > Uriel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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