How to access my dynamic-IP-server in a reasonable way?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <bmepu3$p4a$1 at sf1.isc.org>,  <annil at telia.com> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I have a broadband connection to my PC. I'm running Windows XP Pro and 
>have installed IIS. I want to be able to access the webserver in a 
>convenient way.
>
>If I had had a static IP I could make a link or forward to this IP 
>fronwww.myhomepage.com/local or whatever. Unfortunately, my ISP doesn't 
>give me a static IP, that is, my IP will change about every day (while I 
>shut-down my computer at night).
>
>If I had had an own domain to dedicate to my web-server, I could have 
>used one of the "dynamic DNS-services" avaliable. However, I don't want 
>to devote a domain to my web-server, I just want to be able to reach it 
>in a reasonable way - maybe from a link on my webpage at 
>www.myhomepage.com, or as a forward from www.myhomepage.com/local/.

Most dynamic DNS services use a name in the service provider's domain,
e.g. yourname.dyndns.org.  Go to www.dyndns.org to find out their options
and pricing.

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Barry Margolin, barry.margolin at level3.com
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