andy206uk — Mon, 18 Apr 2005 15:27:26 +0000

Best solution is to contact your ISP and get them to assign you a static IP. You might have to pay a few quid but it's worth it in my opinion.

chrishirst — Mon, 18 Apr 2005 12:36:45 +0000

I use dyndns to run my testing/demo server on. in the 3 years I've run this there has not been any problems with dns propogation. If I setup a new hostname it's live and available within a few minutes, and yes, I have checked this from various traceroute servers around the world. The difference is the way these services set up their DNS servers so requests always go back to the authoratitve server instead of relying on cached data.

There is a update program that runs as a service and communicates with the DNS server when the IP changes.

JeevesBond — Mon, 18 Apr 2005 11:47:36 +0000

Personally I've no experience of this type of software, it's a lot easier to just rent a static IP address.

I don't know about Canada but they're about £5 per month in the uk, for the money you save getting some software to associate with a dynamic IP you'll spend a lot more in time messing about, trying to find a solution.

Also: It usually takes 24 hours for DNS changes to propagate through the various DNS servers around the world, so when your IP changes and the software (whatever that may be) amends the record associated with your domain you may be facing a 24 hour wait before your web site becomes available again.

So this doesn't answer the question, but hopefully it'll help!