On Nov 12, 2007 12:59 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves lawgon@au-kbc.org wrote:
On 10-Nov-07, at 7:28 PM, Aman Mathur wrote:
- Is this ip address of mine a static ip address ?. If not , then why
does it stay the same all the time ?
In the first place, please put a meaningful subject line - this is not a Triband Query, it is a question of hosting a website with a dynamic IP. You do not have a static IP. The router you use has an internal IP - 192.168.1.x or something, and you are on the same lan as that. So your IP is also 192.168.1.y. The router has an external IP which will change each time you reconnect to the net.
- If I want to host my website on my computer which anyone on the
internet can access, how do i go about it ? . I have some basic idea of port forwarding and read some of the tutes on www.portforward.com, which were really informative, but im still not sure how i can host a website on my computer which anyone can access.
If you do port forwarding, your site will appear on the dynamic IP you have got. Which means that the IP of your site will change everytime you reconnect. Which means that you cannot host a domain on the site since no dns service will service a dynamic domain. You would probably also get the IP blacklisted for hosting on a dynamic ip. For your friends, you can do port forwarding and phone them to tell them which IP they need to go to.
It takes Rs. 1000/year for a static IP. Well worth it given the headaches or unreliability of dyndns updating your ip address.
Also, the time taken to write a script which will determine your assigned ip, and email you if that ip has changed will definitely cost more than 1000.