FYIhielvc wrote:That idiot, I shall remain un-named, straighten out my port forwarding. But for 2 weeks now at about 10pm my internet goes down. so Im directly hooked the modem. I now have a new ip address so tomorrow mornig Ill have to redo everthing. In other words my links down. IN the mean time I wait and wait for cox service sigh.
You can use Dynamic DNS to have your (changing) IP associated with a web address name of your choice. And unless you need a bunch of sub-domains or something, it's free.
Some sites that do it:
http://www.dyndns.com/
http://www.no-ip.com/
(a bunch more sites do it)
Those companies just use a database that associates the web address with your REAL IP. You just use a script that tells the company's server your new IP address when it changes.
The updater script for both are in portage (net-dns/noip-updater for no-ip.com and net-dns/ddclient for dyndns) and ddclient might even be included in your router (though it'll be an older version than the one in portage).
So that avoids your worry about the different IP. I think (since I haven't used this service) that it takes a few minutes for the IP change to propogate to their servers when it does change but that's probably acceptable.




