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On 19/01/12 04:27, Kai Hendry wrote: > > 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? Because it is easier to offer static IPs to the few that want it? > But why isn't it more mainstream than that? Probably bandwidth, reliability and prevalence of NAT/PAT Demon use to do something like this with dial but I think they gave static IP addresses. > 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. Unlikely hopefully otherwise the malware would be doing it. There is only one port 80 per NAT device (typically). > 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. The technology still doesn't lend itself well to this most places. Might be fine out the far east with oodles of bandwidth, but the wrong end a busy ADSL line is not good. You following Alec Muffett, as he was recently muttering about why mobile phones are bad for the Internet :) Maybe with IPv6..... -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq