« Articles / Dynamic DNS

2025.09.26

28

0 comments

» Start a forum discussion.

Not a huge or exciting update, but, initially, when I started running XAMPP on the downstairs box and opening that machine up to the outside world, our external IP was quite static and sat there without changing for a good few weeks.

Since then, I was having to make changes to the '$box_ip' variable in the site's index page to keep updating the IP every couple of days, which was in no way practical, since we've been quite busy lately.

I was chatting on over at the deadnet forums and it sent me hunting after dynamic DNS solutions.

Dynu has a free service where you download a client onto pretty much any OS - even iOS, amazingly - that polls their server every so often to find out your external IP and then it updates dynu's DNS records for your domain name accordingly.

I see that the service also allows you to apply SSL encryption (although there is a minor cost involved) in case I ever want to host any applications on that box as well as any big files.

You should find now that the link to the Krystal file area never points to a previous IP.

That machine has a lot of space.  I would be interested to hear any ideas around what Star Fleet material we might store on there to expand xbomber.co.uk as a one-stop-shop for Star Fleet information.

Comments

Ruby
I don't have any comments for this article yet.
Why not leave us one?

Article View

← Previous articleNext article →

Article list
Archive

Contact
Krystal File Area »
Links
Article list Star Fleet Teams
Theme Select