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On 19/01/12 04:27, Kai Hendry wrote:
Hi guys, At risk of coming across as an idiot in public, I was wondering why don't ISPs don't automatically offer Dynamic DNS services to their users? I know some do a static IP, which is nice, but a "Dynamic DNS" where a mnemonic name like hendry.isp.example.com would be nice no? I noticed a lot of routers have dynamic dns dialogs to configure horrible nagware sites like dyn and no-ip. But why isn't it more mainstream than that? Just wondering why the Internet isn't more peer to peer (I hate that term), at least for experimentation purposes. I know http://unite.opera.com/was trying to address this, but I don't know how far it got really. What I would like to do is have my laptop at laptop.dabase.com at all times and whenever I wanted to show you something, I could launch my httpd and say checkout http://laptop.dabase.com/foobar Assuming that the connection I'm on can hopefully punch port 80 open out using UPnP. This is useful for demo-ing my latest nodejs creation for example. I don't want to rent a VPS to show you a nodejs experiment. Kind regards,
A couple of obvious reasons re ddns:1) Money - why give away something you can sell: The people who need DNS are generally businesses and would get 'worth' from dns whereas sadgit.isp.example.com would generate 200 support calls trying to work out why his windows box is ... 2) another 200 support calls... if you think you've got dns when you only have ddns you are going to loose service when your IP changes - if its in the middle of a 'transaction' that transaction would have to be aborted for security reasons. And the bloke who has your old IP gets a lot of unwanted traffic too.
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