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Question by Heron By The Sea: What does it mean that my webhosting service has changed my IP address?
I was emailed by my webhosting service about a change in my IP address. How will this effect me? Or will it?

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Answer by spyka
If you have domain names pointing to the IPs of their servers, these will need to be changed.

Apart from that it shouldn’t really.

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Question by iMattG5: Do you have to have your address forced on to .tv domain WHOIS lookups?
Hi, i was interested in purchasing a .tv domain name and I was wondering if anyone knew if you have to have your address forced on to .tv WHOIS lookups, like you have to with .com and .net domains?

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Answer by Santa Barbara
Yes, you have to have it forced.

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Question by Maxx Fordham: What software do I need to become my OWN DNS (domain name server/service), even with a dynamic IP address?
Okay, there are plenty of DNSs out there. Obviously, or we wouldn’t be able to have any kind of “www.AnyName.any” out there. What do they use to serve domain names, and how can I get that same stuff to do it myself (yes, along with using the software that updates my changing IP address with the domain name)?

Okay, so I need software that updates the domain name with my dynamic IP address (since I don’t want to try to afford a static IP address), so what software do I use to do that? No, I’m not asking who can do that for me, I’m asking how I can do it for myself.

And then once I’ve gotten dynamic IP address updating handled, how do I serve my domain name out there by myself–what software do I need to get in order to link my domain name to that IP address (by my own DNS)?

Obviously it’s being done. Now how do *I* do it?

Will you come back and see my responses to yours, please?

Thanks,
Mike Christensen
Okay, Gober, thanks. But you’re answering as if I’m still choosing to outsource my DNS. Naw, I’m actually asking how I can serve that MYSELF. How do they provide that service to others? How can I become one of THEM (except only provide it for myself)?
Thank you, Gober! Well, that tells me that having my own name server is more complex than I thought. (It would probably cost me more to have a static IP address than pay someone else to serve my domain name up, since I hear that DNS alone is very inexpensive. I can’t find prices on the site you mentioned, though.)

Mike

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Answer by Gober
If you’re working on a dynamic IP then you’re going to need a service like DynDNS (www.dyndns.com) to update your IP address.

First of all you need to register a domain name, you can do that via dyndns.com or via another registrar (tucows, netsol, godaddy,…). You set the domain up to use the Dynamic DNS provider’s name servers.

Some routers will have an update tool built in, that can send your new IP address to your Dynamic DNS provider. If your router or modem doesn’t support this then you need to set up a client on your computer to send these updates.

Some other things to watch out for when you’re setting up your own server: some ISPs might block access to ports like 80 (HTTP), 25 (SMTP), 21 (FTP) for incoming connections to your IP.
And if you have a regular, residential type connection, then your upstream bandwidth is likely to be a lot smaller then your downstream bandwidth. Depending on the type of service you’re going to be running and the traffic you’re expecting, this might not be suitable for your purposes.

Edit:

It’s not a good idea to run your own nameservers on a dynamic IP connection.

First of all you are required to have 2 nameservers for a domain, which you probably don’t have with your connection type.

The main problem however is that glue records (linking ns.yourdomain to your IP on the root servers) have a Time To Live (TTL) of 48 hours. The TTL of your dynamically hosted A records will be very short (a few minutes max) so that you have a minimal downtime when your IP changes. On the glue records you can’t change the default TTL, this means that you risk having 48 hour downtimes for users who have the old IP address cached.

If you really want to run your own nameservers then I’d advise you to upgrade to a connection with a static IP, but frankly I don’t see much advantage in having your own nameservers.

More info:
http://www.dyndns.com/support/kb/glue_records.html
http://www.dyndns.com/support/kb/what_is_domain_registration.html#glue
http://www.dyndns.com/support/kb/dns_caching.html

Edit 2:
Yup, good choice.
The dyndns prices are here: http://www.dyndns.com/services/pricing/
But I’m sure you can find cheaper as well if you shop around.
For example there’s a sale at godaddy.com at the moment with .info domains for .99.
Good luck.

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Question by ramzsong: What happend to the space on the top where you can type in the web address? I really need this restored.?
How do I type in a web address ?The space is missing from the home page.Yahoo is great, but I really need to go other places.

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Answer by NOIZE
right click on tool bar (top of page) and select address bar.

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Question by Princess: If I buy a web domain, will people know my real address?
I’m thinking of buying a domain name for personal use (just to publish some creative writing, as opposed to selling anything). However, I know that if you use a “whois” tool, you can find out the registered addresses of website owners. Does anyone know if this applies to personal websites like this? I’d be a little nervous about people on the internet having access to my home address!

I hope this isn’t a stupid question. Thanks to anyone who can help!

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Answer by Peter Davies
No people will not be able to discover your real address unless you put it on your website or if they hack it.

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