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I don't want this to be a publically available site, just something that I can refer my fellow students to when I want them to see a web page I wrote on a particular subject. I don't want this site indexed at an SE.
I could just tell my classmates to type in my IP and be done with it, but I don't want my classmates to know my IP.
If though, I set up a web site with a web hosting firm, I could have the students go to the url of the site on the firms server, and then redirect them to my home machine.
If they're smart they can always get a sniffer and see this happening, but I don't think many will.
Would this redirection practice be frowned-upon by web hosting admins? I would imagine it would...there may be a "hosted by so-and-so" logo on every page, but if I redirect, this won't be seen, thus not generating any potential business. It's possible I could put such a logo on my pages. It might make nice with the admin.
What are your thoughts?
Thanks.
Basically, when your computer comes on line or the IP changes, a program on your computer sends a message to dyndns.org or whoever, who then update their nameservers automatically. Your hostname, which will probably be a subdomain of the form e.g. myhostname.dyndns.org will then resolve to the current IP address. You can give this hostname out to anyone who needs to access the site.
I heard about dns, but I completely forgot about them.
I'll look into it.
