Posted by: Saajha July 13, 2009
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Yep, that's one of the main keys - Dynamic DNS.
It allows redirecting traffic to your machine regardless of the IP addresses that your ISP provides you with. So, once you have the web service running on your box, and have your Gateway (Router) configured to allow traffic to say, port 12345; outside users can surf the site. But I believe the original question was about being able to allow users to reach the site without the need of typing in the port number.
Eg., www.domain.com instead of www.domain.com:12345
And on that, you are right -- you can pick one of the customized domain names for free, but you're stuck with that name -- or end up paying their charge to do that! Hmm.. but there's a really neat trick on having your own domain name accept connections going to port 80 -> going to one of those 'customized domain names' -> and being redirected to your domain name and the port other than 80/443. (Hint Hint!! ;) ) All that, without paying the DDNS people for the service.
I know it's no big deal to pay 20 something dollars per year or so. But you feel great when you bypass such obligations and restrictions and figure out something else on our own! You're almost there ..though!!! ;-)
I did spend about 2 hours Saturday morning, putting together the steps - and I chose to do a video demo. I also purchased a domain name for 2 bucks (and some change) to test with, and got it up and running, and verified that I could hit it from outside the network w/o typing in the port #. It's all there, but haven't published it yet -- because I wanted to add some 'cool' noise in the background, and my VISTA machine doesn't support recording from the speakers for some obnoxious reason -- and when I move it over to the XP box, it crashes with a codec error --- turns me nuts!
So, just to have a look -- go to www.securitty.info
I have an Ubuntu machine running apache2 -- you should be able to hit the site ~~ and also get some additional clue on the last part you're exploring! Just a quick note though: All there is, is a flash welcome page. You might need to use IE (as opposed to Firefox) to see it.
BTW, I'll try getting the demo published on the site - hopefully next weekend.
~@~
It allows redirecting traffic to your machine regardless of the IP addresses that your ISP provides you with. So, once you have the web service running on your box, and have your Gateway (Router) configured to allow traffic to say, port 12345; outside users can surf the site. But I believe the original question was about being able to allow users to reach the site without the need of typing in the port number.
Eg., www.domain.com instead of www.domain.com:12345
And on that, you are right -- you can pick one of the customized domain names for free, but you're stuck with that name -- or end up paying their charge to do that! Hmm.. but there's a really neat trick on having your own domain name accept connections going to port 80 -> going to one of those 'customized domain names' -> and being redirected to your domain name and the port other than 80/443. (Hint Hint!! ;) ) All that, without paying the DDNS people for the service.
I know it's no big deal to pay 20 something dollars per year or so. But you feel great when you bypass such obligations and restrictions and figure out something else on our own! You're almost there ..though!!! ;-)
I did spend about 2 hours Saturday morning, putting together the steps - and I chose to do a video demo. I also purchased a domain name for 2 bucks (and some change) to test with, and got it up and running, and verified that I could hit it from outside the network w/o typing in the port #. It's all there, but haven't published it yet -- because I wanted to add some 'cool' noise in the background, and my VISTA machine doesn't support recording from the speakers for some obnoxious reason -- and when I move it over to the XP box, it crashes with a codec error --- turns me nuts!
So, just to have a look -- go to www.securitty.info
I have an Ubuntu machine running apache2 -- you should be able to hit the site ~~ and also get some additional clue on the last part you're exploring! Just a quick note though: All there is, is a flash welcome page. You might need to use IE (as opposed to Firefox) to see it.
BTW, I'll try getting the demo published on the site - hopefully next weekend.
~@~
Last edited: 13-Jul-09 10:39 AM