Home servers, anyone?

[Bob Sneidar]

Just create a reservation in your DHCP server so that the server always gets the same address.

Bob S


On Oct 27, 2015, at 12:45 , Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com<mailto:ambassador at fourthworld.com>> wrote:

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
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