Dynamic To Static IP Address

My brother wants to run a small server on his computer at home and broadcast
pictures from his webcam. He connects via ADSL and a router. He has a
dynamic IP address. Could anyone recommend a free way of linking a static IP
address to his dynamic one?

On 11 Sep 2005 18:04, "R.Daneel Olivaw" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Could anyone recommend a free way of linking a static IP address
>to his dynamic one?

There are various "dynamic IP" services which allow a sub-domain entry to be
updated to point to the correct IP. However, there will usually be some who
have the old IP in a cache and will therefore fail to get the new IP however
often the user does a simple "refresh browser". He might be better off with
a new ISP as there are lots around, and also be careful not to break any ISP
restrictions on transmitting webcam images - I came across some ISP just the
other day which banned streams from webcams. I know one ISP (aa.nu) has the
opposite - no count of traffic uploaded but download restrictions... Peter M

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On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 18:33:25 +0100, poster <us-(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>On 11 Sep 2005 18:04, "R.Daneel Olivaw" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>Could anyone recommend a free way of linking a static IP address
>>to his dynamic one?
>
>There are various "dynamic IP" services which allow a sub-domain entry to be
>updated to point to the correct IP. However, there will usually be some who
>have the old IP in a cache and will therefore fail to get the new IP however
>often the user does a simple "refresh browser". He might be better off with
>a new ISP as there are lots around, and also be careful not to break any ISP
>restrictions on transmitting webcam images - I came across some ISP just the
>other day which banned streams from webcams. I know one ISP (aa.nu) has the
>opposite - no count of traffic uploaded but download restrictions... Peter M

One such service that I have been using is www.no-ip.org. This gives
you a name like yourname.no-ip.org which always points to your dynamic
ip address.

They have a small app that you download and it runs in the background
on your machine and updates their server every time your ip address
changes.

I've never had any problems with it not updating but that could be
because, my ip address, although dynamic, tends to only change every 6
months or so (blueyonder)

Many thanx - I will let him know


"Dave" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 18:33:25 +0100, poster <us-(E-Mail Removed)>
> wrote:
>
>>On 11 Sep 2005 18:04, "R.Daneel Olivaw" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>
>>>Could anyone recommend a free way of linking a static IP address
>>>to his dynamic one?
>>
>>There are various "dynamic IP" services which allow a sub-domain entry to
>>be
>>updated to point to the correct IP. However, there will usually be some
>>who
>>have the old IP in a cache and will therefore fail to get the new IP
>>however
>>often the user does a simple "refresh browser". He might be better off
>>with
>>a new ISP as there are lots around, and also be careful not to break any
>>ISP
>>restrictions on transmitting webcam images - I came across some ISP just
>>the
>>other day which banned streams from webcams. I know one ISP (aa.nu) has
>>the
>>opposite - no count of traffic uploaded but download restrictions... Peter
>>M
>
> One such service that I have been using is www.no-ip.org. This gives
> you a name like yourname.no-ip.org which always points to your dynamic
> ip address.
>
> They have a small app that you download and it runs in the background
> on your machine and updates their server every time your ip address
> changes.
>
> I've never had any problems with it not updating but that could be
> because, my ip address, although dynamic, tends to only change every 6
> months or so (blueyonder)

R.Daneel Olivaw wrote:

> My brother wants to run a small server on his computer at home and
> broadcast pictures from his webcam. He connects via ADSL and a router. He
> has a dynamic IP address. Could anyone recommend a free way of linking a
> static IP address to his dynamic one?

A possible way is to have a very small permanent (commercial)
web site, and then upload the webcam to the web site every
few minutes / seconds.

But that does depend on your web site hosting company
being able to do quick updates (which in many cases can be crap!).

Use liveCDs like Mepis that has the camstream utility to stream
webcam images to ftp server.
http://livecdlist.com/

> My brother wants to run a small server on his computer at home and
broadcast
> pictures from his webcam. He connects via ADSL and a router. He has a
> dynamic IP address. Could anyone recommend a free way of linking a static
IP
> address to his dynamic one?


I use the free service from dyndns.com

My cheapo conexant router works with this brilliantly .

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Graham.



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