PayPal IPN notify at server URL(but I have dynamic IP)

[avirup dasgupta]

Hi,

You all know how Paypal IPN works.

"When a customer makes a payment to you, PayPal will post a notification to your server at a URL you specify. Included in this notification will be all of your customer's payment information (e.g. customer name, amount) as well as a piece of encrypted code. When your server receives a notification, it will then post the information, including the encrypted code, back to a secure PayPal URL. PayPal will authenticate the transaction by checking the encrypted string...."

This is perfectly fine.

BUT, my application has a problem--my server has a dynamic IP & my customer's are in my LAN.

So in the statement--
"PayPal will post a notification to your server at a URL you specify"

What URL will I specify?
Is there a work-around? Like Paypal using emails..

Any alternate method?

Thanks in advance.

[Raymond]

As you said, IPN posts to an URL. So you won't have any problem as long as your dynamic IP is updated precisely and frequently with whichever DNS service you are using.

[ngentot]

does your IP have a domain name? A URL can be an IP address or a domain name.

If you don't have the domain name, you could sign up for it. A company called no-ip provides this for free. You would have to install a piece of software on your server and it will check your IP every few seconds, send it to no-ip and assign it to your domain name dynamically every time you're connected. So all you need to do is just remember your domain name.

[avirup dasgupta]

I do not have any domain name right now.

Anyway ,thanks for the suggestions.