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dynamic dns (Score:2)

by jmm (276)

The site dyndns.com for a long time was providing free dynamic dns support, but looking at their web site it seems that they've been sold out to a commercial company dyndns.org. That would still be far cheaper than $250.
I used dyndns.com for a couple of years quite happily, but switched to easydns.com when I registered my domain through them and thei registration included dynamic dns as part of the deal. They are $35/year for the domain reg including dynamic dns, and I've had no problems with them over t
Dedicated server plus tunnel (Score:2)

by Juerd (1796)

It's much cheaper to get a dedicated server and set up a simple tunnel/VPN if you need outgoing traffic to be from that static IP.
DynDNS.org (Score:2)

by schwern (1528)

I use their CustomDNS service for schwern.org to point to my machine on a cable modem. Works like a charm. Just have a little daemon running on my server to inform DynDNS when there's an IP change. $25 per year per domain. [dyndns.org] Better than (does some math) $3000 per year with your friend's scheme. And they support Perl [dyndns.org]