Dynamic IP services

Anybody ever use one?

[jbinbpt]

I am considering using one of these services to hit a testing server. I am on a dsl that drops off way too often. Do these services really work?

[mnamesir]

These do work pretty good- as long as you're cool with installing a program that updates your information in the Dynamic DNS service you choose.
There are a bunch of shareware programs out there that you can install - the program will find your public IP by visiting either 1) your firewall's admin console, 2) a well-known URL responds with your public IP, and 3) a custom URl that you can choose- you have to usually establish an account with then (free up to 5), pick your TLD (e.g. dyndns.org, homelinux.org, etc.), and then choose your custom subdomain.

The name you pick, like 'myName'.domain.com is 'kept (SOA)' in your "Dyanamic DNS Service Provider's" DNS servers.... long story short, the name you pick is kept pointed to your home's Internet address by the software that runs on the PC- that software talks to your DDNS host to let them know where in Cyberspace you are, IPly speaking.

I like choice 3 - if you can program a server code
<% variantVar = request.ServerVariables("REMOTE_ADDR") %>

into the top of a custom (your) blank web page then you can store in a variable the IP of your PC. You can then use the

<%response.write variantVar%>

to write the value in the HTML body.