Showing IP address on my personal ISP web site.

[Frenchguy]

Hi all,

I would like to have my home ISP address publish on my web site. The
reason is that all the ISP are providing by default DHCP and I don't
want to pay for a statis IP address, and I would like to either
connect to my home server and computer at home, but for this I need
the IP address and I think the best way to do it is to have a process
publishing my ISP IP address on my personal web page. So that if one
day I need to connect to the server I would just open my personal web
page and would be able to see the IP.

Any help will be appreciated !!!

My ISP is Sympatico and I'm using a router at home with DMZ to my
server. For now I'm checking on my Linksys to have the public IP
address, but would be much better if I could save that portion.

Thanks...

 

[Mark Fitzpatrick]

Use a dynamic IP address service. What these services do is take a permanent
domain name and park it, pointing to your dynamic IP address when it's
available. Usually this pointer is done through a frameset, with the content
frame coming from your IP address. Keep in mind, your ISP may have the right
to discontinue your service if they find out as hosting a web server on a
home account is usually a no-no.

Be very careful with this. When you open up your computer like this it can
be a problem as you're radically increasing the potential attack surface
against your computer.

Also, keep in mind that Windows has a built-in limit to the number of
simultaneous connections that can be opened. That number is 10 simultaneous
connections.This does not mean 10 simultaneous users, it means connections.
It could be that each user has one connection, or that one user makes use of
all 10 connections. This could leave you with an inability to view your own
local web server.

 

[Frenchguy]

Thanks Mark, I agree with you hosting a web page from home would be
dangerous and the bandwidth usage would be too much. The main reason
is that I will be using the server for file storage, pictures, etc..
but for now I'm configurin it and play around to learn as much as i
can. This server would be protected with password, i don't want
anybody else to be connected on it. It's a UNIX platform and since I'm
still newbie in UNIX, I'd like to connect to it when ever I have spare
time at work, but I don't always check for my IP address and it change
when ever the connection is re-initialise, so if the personal web page
is posting the IP, then I just need to look at it and connect to it
via a telnet session or SSH, I think SSH would be better since it's
more secure.

It might exist a script on application that take your IP on the router
and put it on a web page, remember not many poeple are going to
www3.sympatico.ca/myuser most of the time it's poeples new to web page
creation and nothing really interesting in there for unkown people,
it's more for their friends and relatives...I think this is the
average, but you still have nice poeple that share their knowledge and
explain a lot of technical thing too... It is really nice from them
=)

Thanks for your help.
Sylvain