- Dynamic To Static IP Address
- Posted by R.Daneel Olivaw on September 11th, 2005
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?
- Posted by poster on September 11th, 2005
On 11 Sep 2005 18:04, "R.Daneel Olivaw" <nospam@me.thanx> wrote:
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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- Posted by Dave on September 11th, 2005
On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 18:33:25 +0100, poster <us-mail@rocketmail.com>
wrote:
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)
- Posted by R.Daneel Olivaw on September 11th, 2005
Many thanx - I will let him know
"Dave" <weirdoboy@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:92s8i1tkvf2jfc0pso6tlplgopgomcmh3o@4ax.com...
- Posted by 7 on September 11th, 2005
R.Daneel Olivaw wrote:
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/
- Posted by Graham on September 11th, 2005
I use the free service from dyndns.com
My cheapo conexant router works with this brilliantly .
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