So...evidently, Time Warner doesn't offer static IP addresses for home/personal accounts, and I don't really want to pony up for bidness class. Man, I miss DSL for this reason...but TWC's speed is definitely much faster most of the time.

Any of you have any thoughts on services such as DynDNS for updating and pointing to my address when it changes? Other ideas?

6/30/2009 12:05:07 PM

when I had TWC, my ip changed maybe once a year. It's not a big deal at all, and honestly not worth the pain of dyndns

6/30/2009 12:09:18 PM

Seriously? Even if you have to reboot your modem, you're not assigned a new address?

I assumed that the lease on the address released every 24 hours or so, or released upon disconnection for any reason.

I'm looking at running a proxy server at home for DNS, etc. for my cell phone. Trying to bypass Verizon's mobile web fees, etc. Just use my minutes.

6/30/2009 12:15:47 PM

I use DynDNS on my home media server. Works fine. No pain for me. Not sure why it would be painful in the first place.

6/30/2009 12:16:41 PM

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"Even if you have to reboot your modem, you're not assigned a new address?"

not often. you usually keep the same one no matter what for a year

6/30/2009 12:18:17 PM

you can try Hamachi, it'll give you an IP address that'll never change

6/30/2009 1:24:53 PM

^ do they even offer the hamachi client anymore, or is it all logmein now?

anyway, yeah, logmein is my favorite if all you want to do is VPN-type stuff...past that, dyndns

https://secure.logmein.com/

6/30/2009 1:45:46 PM

How does LogMeIn compare to regular Remote Desktop Connection?

6/30/2009 1:53:03 PM

The free service is awesome if you have to get to your system from someone else's, particularly if the system you're using doesn't support RDC. If you can open a Web browser, you're pretty much good to go.

[Edited on June 30, 2009 at 1:54 PM. Reason : ...]

6/30/2009 1:54:19 PM

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"do they even offer the hamachi client anymore, or is it all logmein now?"

yep

https://secure.logmein.com/products/hamachi/list.asp

6/30/2009 2:48:37 PM

Yeah, I'm running Hamachi on all my desktops. Used to use it frequently when I was working for my father AND when I was searching the web for a job while I was at work with Flanders/CSC. Tethered to my phone, disconnected from the local network, and logged into my home computer to send email and search the web. They were pretty nosy in the IT dept, but pretty damn sure they had no keyloggers. None that I could find. Had a friend in IT that got me an unmonitored port number for a while until they started monitoring that one as well.

Big deal now is that I want to tether my netbook to phone and not raise too many eyebrows with Verizon. Hence the proxy running at home.

And I can't just go through my Hamachi IP address because it's encrypted with its own proprietary key, and there ain't a Hamachi client available for phone or Java use.

6/30/2009 4:15:41 PM

<3 logmein! it seriously rocks.

and occasionally when signing up, you get a free trial of their pro version - that damn thing is sweet. but I don't use it enough to purchase that version

6/30/2009 4:45:35 PM

i have a logmein rescue account for work. it's pretty tits.

6/30/2009 5:14:03 PM

I've been using DynDNS for awhile now. There is a separate program called DynDNS updater which will "phone home" every so often if your IP address changes. As much as I remote desktop and SFTP to my box, well worth it to get a hostname rather than trying to remember an IP address.

[Edited on June 30, 2009 at 11:27 PM. Reason : .]

6/30/2009 11:24:11 PM

no-ip.com also does the exact thing.

6/30/2009 11:54:32 PM

I've been using DynDNS for years. DD-WRT allows you to put in your dyndns login credentials, and it will automatically update the address when it changes.

7/1/2009 11:39:28 AM

Just about every new router I've seen supports dyndns.

7/1/2009 1:34:48 PM

if your router doesn't support it, and you're too afraid to install DD-WRT, then on one of your machines you could setup a short shell script to update dyndns.

sudo apt-get install ddclient

this kind of thing isn't new. back in the 90s people would do this to run ftp servers from their modem.

7/2/2009 1:19:31 AM