Re: Regarding dynamic ip addressed for HTTP Servers.

Thank you for your responses, now i know what i was missing :-) !

Cheers,
Simith

On 7/1/07, Mike Dierken <dierken@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> You can do this via dynamic DNS bindings and is not a feature needed in
> HTTP.
> Check out dyndns.org for more details on how to have a short lifetime
> on the mapping between a host name and an IP address.
>
>
>
> On 6/29/07, SiM <simithn@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello All,
> >                 My first post to the list, i'am familiar with HTTP from
> a
> > user's point of view. I need some help in understanding the concept of
> how
> > things like "Running HTTP server on Dynamic IP address
> > machines is generally implemented "
> >
> > I have a situation where we have a machine having a dynamic IP, hosting
> some
> > HTML documents, and will be online for sometime in a day, and wants to
> > associate
> > itself with a HTTP URL, so that any request targetted at that URL, is
> > redirected to this machine running on the Dynamic IP address.
> >
> > I'am talking about a subdomain like simith.bloggerspoint.com, which is a
> > subdomain on bloggerspoint.com , and i wish to store all the content on
> my
> > dynamic ip address machine,
> > so that all requests targetted at simith.bloggerspoint.com are
> redirected by
> > bloggerspoint.com to my dynamic IP address or  just tunnelled to my
> dynamic
> > ip address.
> >
> > For a feature of this kind to work, there should be some kind of a
> Binding
> > request and an unbinding request, associating the subdomain with the
> dynamic
> > IP address which i have,
> > on each reboot of my PC.
> >
> > So when my HTTP server is up, i do a binding request to the
> > bloggerspoint.com and then when the Server is going down, it does an
> > unbinding request to remove the
> > association.
> >
> > Is there any way i can implement such things in a standard way ? I'am
> not
> > sure whether this is in the scope of HTTP, please redirect me to the
> > appropriate mailing list, if this
> > is not the right place :-).
> >
> > Please point me to any standard techniques generally adopted by
> implementors
> > who want to have such functionality ?
> >
> > Thank you in advance,
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Simith
> >
> >
>