My cheap dynamic-dns workaround--who wants features?

[michaelsanford]

I got fed up with my dynamic IP address, and I wasn't about to go through one of those dynamic name-service providers because I don't want to buy another domain name... Here's my cheap solution:

I've written an application that automatically every 30 minutes pulls your IP address and then makes a little message in a static file on a remote server. and logs the errors and stuff locally. This means you can give people a static path to a web server you have access to, and it will forward them to your IP. This is a sample output right now (I changed my IP):

Tue Dec 17 15:26:18 EST 2002
New IP address:
64.230.2.101

Ok so I'm going to clean up (i.e., write) my Cocoa UI so that people can configure it (does the 10.1 firewall ring any bells )

I'm now soliciting feature ideas. Here are some I have planned for the initial public release:

• Option to make the IP info file hidden on the remote server.
• Give the remote file a custom name.
• Add links as well as plain-text IP info.
• Make links for custom services (like SnapperHead, QTSS, etc).
• Make the app run only when the user is logged in, or all the time the computer is turned on.
• Make the page a META REFRESH 0 forwarding page.
• Make the page a frame that transparently redirects.

Any other ideas?

 

[slur]

That's pretty cool.

Since I don't have access to a remote server I use EasyDNS to forward requests to my home webserver. They're completely free and will happily forward a domain name that you already own.

Oh yeah, they also support a few different GUI clients, although I just use "curl" in a cron job.