IP forwarding.

[180Mhz]

I would like to set up a small FTP/HTTP server on an old computer I have kicking around. I have run a server on it before with no problem. The only problem is I do not have a static IP adress.
Due to the fact that I still live with my parents and dont have a source of income at this point in time i have no way to upgrade to a static acount. I though of this however. Basicaly what I want to do is create a cheap free webpage with a 5 sec or so forwarding delay to forward to my IP. (I can do that already) My problem is ever couple of hours my IP re-news itself. I would like to write a small program to grab my IP from the net and post an updated HTML file on the feebie site.


My idea is to write a java code on a HTML sheet and load it onto the breebie site. The page would be unlinked so it can only be direct accessed. The code would copy the IP of the computer (my server) that conected to the page to a varible, and then update the IP string on the Forwarding index.html page. The Java would be triggered by the page being loaded. I could get this to work by say getting windows to load the page via schedualed tasks every 30 min or so.

Can this be done. If so can someone give me some links to pages that might help me. I have very limited knowledge in HTML and JAVA.

thanks

 

[Vormund]

Here:
http://www.dyndns.com/

You can register something like "http://mycomputer.homeip.net", and then download one of the many free programs they have (links on the site), that you'd put on your server machine, to update the IP...either every so often, or just when it changes! I did that with dial-up (lol), and it worked great.

This seems a lot easier than what you said Hope it helps.

Here's a description of it on their web site (free up to 5 IPs):
http://www.dyndns.com/services/dns/dyndns/