Connecting to my home webserver

[George]

Hi Everyone,

A quick question. I would like to connect to my home webserver which
sits behind my netgear firewall/router. I have an ADSL connection to
the net and my isp dynamically allocates my ip address. Do I need to
try and get my isp to provide me with a fixed ip address or is there
any way I can connect to my server without having to do this.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Cheers

George

 

[Don Freeman]

Hi Everyone,

A quick question. I would like to connect to my home webserver which
sits behind my netgear firewall/router. I have an ADSL connection to
the net and my isp dynamically allocates my ip address. Do I need to
try and get my isp to provide me with a fixed ip address or is there
any way I can connect to my server without having to do this.

Lots of choices other then paying for a static ip address:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=dynamic+ip+server

 

[WJRutledge]

Does your ISP actually change your IP address frequently? Speaking from
my own experience with Comcast, while the address they give me isn't
completely static, I've had the same IP address for upwards of a year
now. Should they ever change their own addressing scheme, I'm still
susceptible to having mine changed.

With that said, if you just forward a port on your router (default 80)
to your web server (which should be statically addressed), then you can
write down the address of your routers outside address and connect to
the web server by typing that. (ex: http://68.88.28.121/)

--Bill

 

[Cari]

An excellent site which gives every details you'll need:
http://www.dslwebserver.com/

 

[Johanna]

Hi!
Well my ISP changes my IP address quite regularly (practically every day
it changes).

I needed a static IP address for something a year back. I installed
something called 'DynDNS' which somehow fakes a static IP address.

I really don't know how it works, but it has been very reliable and it
solved the problem I was experiencing which was related to the dynamic
IP address.

I think that Static IP addresses aren't always available from the ISP.
Sometimes you have to pay more for it too.
Like the previous poster suggested, you are probably best off if you can
find a freeware rather than hardware (!) solution to this problem.
Your best bet may be to locate a forum for users of that particular type
of webserver - check what people there are using.
Jo

 

[Don Freeman]

Hi!
Well my ISP changes my IP address quite regularly (practically every day
it changes).

I needed a static IP address for something a year back. I installed
something called 'DynDNS' which somehow fakes a static IP address.

I really don't know how it works, but it has been very reliable and it
solved the problem I was experiencing which was related to the dynamic IP
address.

I used DynDNS when I had sbcglobal and it worked quite well. I think what
it does is have your PC send out its IP address whenever it changes and it
updates a pseudo DNS for you.

 

[Conor]

Hi Everyone,

A quick question. I would like to connect to my home webserver which
sits behind my netgear firewall/router. I have an ADSL connection to
the net and my isp dynamically allocates my ip address. Do I need to
try and get my isp to provide me with a fixed ip address or is there
any way I can connect to my server without having to do this.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Netgear routers support DynDNS service. You simply need to forward Port
80 on the router to the IP address of the computer running the
webserver.

Sign up for an account at http://www.dyndns.com/services/dns/dyndns/
and stick the account details in the Dynamic DNS section of the Netgear
Setup. The router will then update DynDNS everytime your IP address
changes and you only have to use one URL.

 

[Conor]

I used DynDNS when I had sbcglobal and it worked quite well. I think what
it does is have your PC send out its IP address whenever it changes and it
updates a pseudo DNS for you.

What is even better is most Netgear routers have built in support so
you don't even need to install the DynDNS client.