[AuckLUG] Dynamic IP Address XTRA

[Kent Wilkinson]

Thanks for the advice. I have found that every time I make or receive a
phone call the IP address changes, I've had some quality issues with my
phone (crossed lines etc...) so it could be causing the connection to
drop out.

I will retest port 80 some time this week.
 
Regards

Kent

On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 06:21:46 +1300
"Ravi Chemudugunta" <chemuduguntar at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am on the Go Large (haha) Plan, my IP stays the same until I
> restart my router - but sometimes it will drop the connection and
> assign a new IP address.  Personally I don't see how ISP's will be
> able to cope with allocation of IP addresses since everyone with an
> broadband connection will have one ... whether they are using the
> connection or not, since most of them are 'always on'.
> 
> With the port 80 issue, AFAIK xtra doesn't block incoming ports
> (except torrents?).  You can't access your server using the external
> IP from inside the LAN, you need to use your local address -
> something like http://10.1.1.x
> 
> This can sometimes be a pain when you are scripting web pages, as the
> root address changes (i.e. http://10.1.1.x within your lan and
> http://something.com from the outside) - to fix this add an alias in
> your /etc/hosts file for e.g.
> 
> ...
> 10.1.1.8        blakbox.ath.cx
> ...
> 
> So whenever you type in your web address (this is my dyndns.org one)
> it won't resolve to your external IP but give you the internal IP.
> 
> On 2/26/07, Kent Wilkinson <kent_wilkinson at xtra.co.nz> wrote:
> >
> > While this shouldn't matter in a few days as I've requested a
> > static IP (just changed to xtra's pro plan max/max/15GB the static
> > IP is free (ish)).
> >
> > Does anyone know how often they change they dynamic IP? or do they
> > increase the number of changes if they detect someone running a web
> > server on their pc.
> >
> > Since I've been hone (about 1.5 hours) my IP has changed twice, but
> > then It has had the same IP before that since last night.
> >
> > I've been attempting to set up a web server in anticipation of a
> > static IP. I have changed the default port from 80 to 15005 as it
> > seems that xtra block 80. It was a simple matter to redirect the
> > port from my router. This worked from my work this morning (I am
> > unable to connect from my own pc from the external IP, I'm not sure
> > whether it is just my modem that won't allow this or all modems?),
> > but i've been trying to get some friends to have a look and they
> > have been unsuccessful.
> >
> > Kind regards
> >
> > Kent
> >
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