Home servers, anyone?

[Richard Gaskin]

Most of my servers have fixed IP addresses, but I'm about to add one to 
my home where the IP will be dynamic.

The most common solution for making servers with dynamic IPs findable is 
DDNS, and there are of course many free providers of such a service.

Put since this isn't a public server (just for testing and 
experimentation) I'll be the only user, and it occurs to me I could take 
a few minutes to craft a simple solution to know the server's current IP 
by using a CGI at one of my sites hosted with real DNS in conjunction 
with an auto-run app on the server to call it similar to what many DDNS 
services use.

I'm inclined to do that only because I like tinkering, but I thought I'd 
check in here to see if this very specific use case was something others 
might have a need for.  If so, I might get around to documenting the CGI 
and sharing it, but since most folks just use DDNS I'd guess this 
302-based workaround is probably too use-case specific to be of 
interest.  If I'm wrong let me know and that'll motivate me to get 
around to documenting it that much sooner.

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Systems
  Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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