RE: [SLUG] Virtual hosts on a dynamic IP

["Marty" <marty@nospam.asgard.aus.tm>]

Hi Paul,

Sounds like a problem.

If you have a dynamic IP address, how are visitors going to be able to
resolve your domain to any particular IP? ie, if I type www.yoursite.com.au
in my browser how will my machine find yours anyway? The settings in your
httpd.conf are secondary to this problem.

There used to be free dynamic DNS services on the net - anyone know if these
still exist?

Get a fixed IP and this all works out of the box. Good luck!

Cheers,
Marty


> Um yeah I want the sites to be visible to the world, which is my problem,
> otherwise I'd just use the ip addr..
>
> Call me a pesimist but when apache say u need a NamevirutalHost
> ip with an
> ip taht your name resolves to it doesn't leave me with much hope.
>
> but I do hope :)
>
> I remember from a discussion ages ago that you could just write a lil
> executable which modifies httpd.conf and restarts the process..
>
> is this viable / safe? (probably not safe at least)
>
> Paul

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