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Hi guys, At risk of coming across as an idiot in public, I was wondering why don't ISPs don't automatically offer Dynamic DNS services to their users? I know some do a static IP, which is nice, but a "Dynamic DNS" where a mnemonic name like hendry.isp.example.com would be nice no? I noticed a lot of routers have dynamic dns dialogs to configure horrible nagware sites like dyn and no-ip. But why isn't it more mainstream than that? Just wondering why the Internet isn't more peer to peer (I hate that term), at least for experimentation purposes. I know http://unite.opera.com/ was trying to address this, but I don't know how far it got really. What I would like to do is have my laptop at laptop.dabase.com at all times and whenever I wanted to show you something, I could launch my httpd and say checkout http://laptop.dabase.com/foobar Assuming that the connection I'm on can hopefully punch port 80 open out using UPnP. This is useful for demo-ing my latest nodejs creation for example. I don't want to rent a VPS to show you a nodejs experiment. Kind regards, -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq