Re: dynamic dns

Yeah, I'm running apache. But the httpd.conf listen address was commented.
Bummer. I thought (was hoping) that was it.

thanks anyway... :-)

At 02:43 PM 8/3/04, you wrote:
>what web server are you running? if its apache, go to the httpd.conf
>file. In the Listen portion. make sure that the listen address is
>commented, not uncommented. I've had the same issue before. I could hit
>my server internally, but not externally.
>
>nate
>
>On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 13:29, Bob Crosby wrote:
> > I've been trying to come up with a way to be able to access my home
> > computer connected to mtaonline.net, without having to spend the extra
> > $10/month they want for a static IP address.
> > I set up an account on dyndns.org to alias the dynamic mtaonline IP
> address
> > to a static hostname on one of their servers. And installed ddclient, a
> > perl script that grabs your current IP address and (if different from
> > previous read) updates the dyndns.org database.
> >
> > So far so good. From any machine on my home LAN, it appears to be working
> > properly. I can point my browser to aliasname.org, and it works. I can
> log
> > in to my account on dyndns.org, and, sure enough, the current IP is kept
> > updated. I can also look at log files on the server and see that ddclient
> > is working as it should.
> >
> > But it doesn't seem to work from other locations -- which is the whole
> > point. When I log in to my dyndns.org account from my office computer,
> > the IP address stored in the database doesn't update. Reloading the page
> > or clearing the cache doesn't help.
> >
> > Does anyone have any experience with, or ideas about that?
> >
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