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Date:	Thu, 8 May 2003 06:15:55 PDT7
From:	"Harry Motin" <hmotin@sbcglobal.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	< "scoug-help@scoug.com" > scoug-help@scoug.com > ,
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Static IP

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On Wed, 7 May 2003 20:52:25 PDT7, Steven Levine wrote:

>the DDNS provider can still be used, but they will have to provide a
>static IP and do the packet forwarding for you. As I understand it, this
>would be a pay for service.

That's not really necessary. The "static" address I would be using is the
"people-friendly" " www.HarryMotin.dynup.net" or "www.HarryMotin.org" name. And
that's what anyone would use to ALWAYS connect to me. Now, the IP address
attached to it (the DSL modem at my home, etc.) is dynamic, because of my DSL ISP
service. However, DDNS's provide a registration service, in which they tie (read that as
register) "static, people-friendly" addresses to dynamic IP addresses. My router is
capable of being set up to continually transmit the IP and people-friendly address
combination to the DDNS service that I use, whenever my IP address changes. The
DDNS re-registers the people-friendly address to the new IP address. My
people-friendly address is re-attached to my IP address, which is new and dynamic.

Note that I'm not using any static IP addresses here with the DDNS service. Nor is the
DDNS forwarding any packets. It's simply providing a service of continually updating
my people-friendly and IP address combination.

Now, I cannot respond to anything about other pluses and minuses in a DDNS service
(like having to use a name with elements belonging to the DDNS (for example:
www.HarryMotin.dynup.net, instead of www.HarryMotin.org)). However, this setup, the
one I just described, offers a reasonable approach to anyone who has a dynamic IP
and yet wants to provide Internet servers under that IP. And perhaps it's the only
method??
HCM

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