Dynamic IPs

suarve · 2 Jan 2009 at 16:50

Hi,

Have noticed my dynamic IP is changinging quite often lately. Is there any way to keep a history of these changes?

Thanks

suarve · 4 Jan 2009 at 03:11

anyone?

Nitrojan · 4 Jan 2009 at 03:15

Why would you want to track the changes? Thats the purpose of a dynamic ip - to change

suarve · 4 Jan 2009 at 22:32

Was just interested too see how often I'm changing ips. My web host blocks access to its SQL Server and they need to allow my individual IP through their firewall. I'm having to email them everytime my ip chnages to gain access to the sql server

adeq1 · 5 Jan 2009 at 00:42

one of the dynamic dns service may have a reporting function, otherwise just find one of the many "what is my ip" sites and schedule a query to run everytime you login / every x hours etc. http://www.whatismyip.org/ seems quite nice as it just outputs plain text.

Skidilliplop · 5 Jan 2009 at 11:52

If you need access to a database that's source address lookup protected then you can either:
1 varify if they can do it based upon reverse DNS instead and use dynamic DNS to keep your IP associated with a DNS record. (ISP should be able to do dynamic RDNS for you)
2 you can ask your isp if you can buy a static IP for a small fee per month.
3 Use some external proxy so that to the hosting company access routers your source IP appears to be the same despite your actual IP changing.

suarve · 5 Jan 2009 at 18:01

Skidilliplop said:
If you need access to a database that's source address lookup protected then you can either:
1 varify if they can do it based upon reverse DNS instead and use dynamic DNS to keep your IP associated with a DNS record. (ISP should be able to do dynamic RDNS for you)
2 you can ask your isp if you can buy a static IP for a small fee per month.
3 Use some external proxy so that to the hosting company access routers your source IP appears to be the same despite your actual IP changing.

I was actually reading about RDNS and was going to enquire about it.

However, tsohost are apparently adding functionality so i can manually add ips to allow through theoir firewall.

Ta for replies