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Geek Culture / quick help with DNS/ip/server stuff

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Suicidal Sledder
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Location: Tikrit, Iraq
Posted: 21st Nov 2008 21:31
I want to host a server on my home computer for a game im making but I dont want to re-distribute the .exe everytime my ip changes since I have dynamic ip. I know there is a way to do this using DNS somehow but I can figure it out and after an hour on google im ready to talk to someone that knows what theyre doing.

Basically I hardcode the DNS into the .exe and then update the page with my new ip everytime it changes.

I dont know how to do that tho. id like to do it for free if possible but a little cost wouldnt kill me. thanks everyone

bitJericho
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Location: United States
Posted: 21st Nov 2008 21:39 Edited at: 21st Nov 2008 21:40
You can do this with something like dyndns.org. You'll also need a router that supports it (which is how I do it on my dev server), you might also be able to get software you can install in linux/windows that does this for you with dyndns.org instead of your router, though I'm not up to date on that.

Alternatively, you can update your name server address every time the IP changes. Really though, I'd recommend just breaking down and paying for hosting. You can get it very inexpensively. You'll be up nearly 100 percent of the time, it'll never drag down your home bandwidth. Also, you don't have to worry about getting popular. (If you get popular, your ISP may catch you hosting out of your own house and you could get in pretty big trouble).

I offer hosting for 2 bucks a month. That gives you mysql databases, postegre databases, python, perl, ruby, php, email, spam filters, mailman lists, and we'll soon be looking to offer svn if that's something you'd be interested in.


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Suicidal Sledder
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Posted: 21st Nov 2008 21:45
it looks like at dyndns.org i need a domain name which i dont have

Suicidal Sledder
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Posted: 21st Nov 2008 21:47
wiat nevermind i think i might be figureing it out... still post if u got another idea

Jeku
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Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Posted: 22nd Nov 2008 19:05
Domain names are only about $10 a year.


Alucard94
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Location: Stockholm, Sweden.
Posted: 22nd Nov 2008 21:31
Got mine for $4 a year. Cheap and easy.


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bitJericho
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Posted: 22nd Nov 2008 21:55
Eh? How's that, godaddy has domains at 9.99 a year Unless you got the first year at a temporary discount price.


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Alucard94
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Posted: 22nd Nov 2008 22:39
I think I got a discount for something I did. Can't honestly remember, was a while ago.


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