I have setup filezilla server on my computer, and i would like to access it via ftp over the internet.
I have a domain name in place already (example: myftpsite.com) i would like this to point to the ftp server, but i do not have a static ip. I know that static ips are much better since you dont have to worry about changing the dynamic every few weeks or months. But i still dont want to use them.
I do not want to use dyndns or any other dns software. I know this can be done without it i just cant figure out how.
Thanks,
Zac
The alternative to dyndns is you can update your DNS records every time your IP changes manually, or make your own program/script that does so.
dyndns is just a program that does this automatically. It updates your name servers every time your IP changes.
The manual alternative would be to type your IP address into your DNS provider whenever it changes.
There isn't another way to do it, thats just how DNS works.
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I have several websites set up on my local XAMPP, and have recently setup virtual hosts so that they can be accessed from my machine using dev.website1.com, dev.website2.com etc.
To achieve this I had to edit my hosts file C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts to ensure the name resolves to the correct IP address.
I would now like to make the sites accessible from other computers on the local network, but editing the hosts file for each machine manually seems to be a bad way of doing it, as it would quickly become unmanageable with several machines/addresses to keep on top of.
My question is: Is it possible to add a DNS record or similar to the domain server of our local network (SBS 2008-R2), so that machines on our network can access my websites without having to edit the hosts file on each machine?
Apologies if this is a noob question - I have tried to RTFM, but I am not a network specialist and can't really even be sure if what I'm reading is relevant to my problem, so I really need some help. Thanks.
If you want to use a made-up hostname, it either has to be in your hosts file or in DNS. It's obviously possible to add new subdomains or aliases (CNAME) that point to your existing IP/host to any DNS server -- it's would seem to be a routine operation for your DNS administrator.
After a lot of research I eventually found out how to achieve what I want. I created a new forward lookup zone with the address dev.testsite.com, and then created a blank A record and set it to the IP address I wanted it to forward to. Anyone on my network can now type dev.testsite.com to see the local apache server, or www.testsite.com to see the live version.
I'm sure there are also other ways of achieving this, but as far as I know this is the simplest.
how do you take a website off of the internet? i have been tasked by my local golf club to remove there old website but im not sure how to do it.
i know the ip address but i dont know where to start to take the site down.
Two suggestions:
Probably the quickest and easiest is to change your dns. You will need to know the dns provider so you can change the address it points to.
If you don't want to do that, find the ftp address and password and delete all the files. My ftp client of choice is https://filezilla-project.org/ . I'd take a local copy first in case they want it back. The address might be ftp.[mysite.tld] depending on the hosting.
If you are really stuck talk to the hosting provider. You can get some info about the hosting from a whois lookup on the ip address: https://who.is/
Newbie programmer here. I'm building an app for an API that requires an IP address for authentication. Basically, users have to send the API management their IPs and then each time a computer makes a request to their server, it verifies whether it's coming from a registered IP.
Since I work in a number of different places and thus end up with different IPs, I thought it would be easiest to use DynDNS to establish a URL that points to whatever my current IP is and then send that URL to the API management. So my first question is if this approach would in fact work?
Secondly, assuming this would work, I set up ben.dynalias.com and downloaded the DynDNS Updater client. It appears to be working: the updater says status: OK and displays my current IP. However, when I navigate to the URL (ben.dynalias.com) there's no response. Should this be the case? How can I tell if it's working?
I don't see any reason it shouldn't work as long as your updaters aren't overwriting each other by running at the same time automatically from different locations.
You can ping ben.dynalias.com and see if your current ip matches.
I just hosted ben.dynalias.com and it gave me your IP.
Since there is no web server running on that IP, then your browser will not be able to show you a page result.
You can use http://www.kloth.net/services/nslookup.php
to check and see if you get the correct IP from a host lookup.
Depending on how often your IP changes this might not be a great solution as the DNS will cache your hostname and will not try and resolve it again until the TTL expires normally minimum 1 hour.
whether the API management accepts a hostname instead of an IP address is a question only they can answer. Some will, many won't as it's "easier" to hijack a domain name than to hijack an ip address.
trying to browse to you-address.dynalias.com that points to your own public address rarely works, even if you opened up the right ports because your router will be highly confused. The best way to test such a setup is by using a phone or tablet with 3g/GPRS internet - of course after you set up port forwarding in the router to point the appropriate port to your computer.
Does anyone know of a free service that's out there that takes xxx.1.2.3.4.theservice.com and resolves to IP 1.2.3.4?
I need this so that I can launch ec2 boxes and point my selenium test scripts at them. I would just use IPs but I need the subdomains to work. Or is there some alternative way to accomplish the same goal? I don't want to mess with the hosts files on my test computers.
More specifically, I need a dns entry X such that music.X and www.X and mail.X to all resolve to my IP.
It sounds like what you need to do is set up your own internal DNS server.
You can create whatever domains you want, and any systems you point to that server will use the entries you create.
I have a server in at a hoster (which has a static IP) and want to run a server at home too and don't want to buy the dyndns package from dyndns.com
I would either like to find a program that does this without costing money and using my own server and domain so I can have myclient.domain.com or I would like to write this myself. Would I be able to do that with a custom apache conf?
EDIT:
I have 1 Server with a static ip and I want to run a server at home (dynamic IP) I want to use the server with the static ip to run as the dyndns managing server
I use zoneedit.com for my DNS servers, and they have a free dynamic service that works fine for my home box. (On the other hand, my home box changes IP about twice a year, so it's not like I stress it.)
On my home box, I have a script that polls a tiny little cgi on my colo box to return what my current IP is (because I can't get it from the router), and if it's changed, it does a "curl" to update my zoneedit settings. When I get home, I'll try to remember to post the script.
Per your revisions: Ah, then you can theoretically do that, yes. (As noted elsewhere, apache.conf is irrelevant.) Your hosted server needs to be the nameserver of record for your dynamic DNS; you should probably use a subdomain. This would be a record in your main domain's zone file of IN NS server.ip.number.here. Then you configure a DNS server on your hosted server for the dynamic namespace; you'll have to get deep into the configuration to set up the records so that they advise client nameservers not to cache them, or to cache them only very briefly. Then you write some sort of systemry where the home machine, when a connection is established, talks to the hosted server and tells it to change the DNS for the dynamic hostname to point to its currently assigned IP.
You cannot do it with a custom Apache conf. Apache handles web serving, not DNS.
Maybe I´m wrong but I think what you want is:
create a dynamic host in a free DNS service, like dyndns.org (Or you can even manager a entire domain using editdns.com which has dynamic dns also). For example: server-at-home.dyndns.org.
Create a static IP host for the desired address (ex. www2) pointing to the same IP address of the www server.
Create a virtual host in the httpd.conf in the static ip server and put a reverseproxy using the dynamic host create on item 1.
P.S.: You said that the main goal is to void to buy for this service but i use dyndns.com and i dont pay for it. And i have 4 hosts in my account.
I have a server at home with a Static IP address, and I do exactly what you are looking to do with a free dyndns account. I just have to renew it every month or two - they send me an email and I just click the link to let them know I'm still here and alive.
I am not exactly sure, but it sounds like you want to redirect to your "server" at your house from your webserver at the hosted site?
You will need to periodically send some notification to your static IP server to let it know your dynamic ip.
You can do this is some cron/scheduled job - just create a redirect html page every day and ftp it (automagically) to your static ip host.
There are probably other ways to do this. But that should work.