“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.” — Albert Einstein
"Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig." — Robert Heinlein
I don't want the ip address of my router to change when the router restarts, so where do I buy a fix for that
The first thing to do is see if your IP really does change. How often does it change?
I don't have a "static IP" with Comcast but even after power outages/restarts/etc I've had the same IP address for months or more at a time. I just gave my IP to my friends and they've been connecting to my server with the same IP ever since I started it.
Your IP may change more frequently - or you may want something easier to remember - in which case the suggestions above are all good. Personally, I'll just tell my friends every time my IP changes; which seems to be virtually never.
EDIT: You didn't say if this was for a few friends or a public server. If it's public I'd definitely say get a service like no-ip, dyndns or tzodns.com.
I have an account with DynDns.com. I've got an address (for example, "example.dyndns.org") that I have forwarded to my IP address so they can be used interchangably. This is a free service.
My router has built-in functionality to log into DynDns with my account so if I do lose power or just randomly get assigned a new IP address, the router automatically contacts DynDns and updates my IP. This way, everyone accessing my server only needs to know the DynDns and not the actual IP.
I have an account with DynDns.com. I've got an address (for example, "example.dyndns.org") that I have forwarded to my IP address so they can be used interchangably. This is a free service.
My router has built-in functionality to log into DynDns with my account so if I do lose power or just randomly get assigned a new IP address, the router automatically contacts DynDns and updates my IP. This way, everyone accessing my server only needs to know the DynDns and not the actual IP.
I've never heard of anyone offering this service for free... no-ip (mentioned earlier) does; which is awesome that I know about that now - but even going to dyndns.org they show their entry level service as $20/year. Is there something I'm missing?
"Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig." — Robert Heinlein
The first thing to do is see if your IP really does change. How often does it change?
I don't have a "static IP" with Comcast but even after power outages/restarts/etc I've had the same IP address for months or more at a time. I just gave my IP to my friends and they've been connecting to my server with the same IP ever since I started it.
Your IP may change more frequently - or you may want something easier to remember - in which case the suggestions above are all good. Personally, I'll just tell my friends every time my IP changes; which seems to be virtually never.
EDIT: You didn't say if this was for a few friends or a public server. If it's public I'd definitely say get a service like no-ip, dyndns or tzodns.com.
My router has built-in functionality to log into DynDns with my account so if I do lose power or just randomly get assigned a new IP address, the router automatically contacts DynDns and updates my IP. This way, everyone accessing my server only needs to know the DynDns and not the actual IP.
I've never heard of anyone offering this service for free... no-ip (mentioned earlier) does; which is awesome that I know about that now - but even going to dyndns.org they show their entry level service as $20/year. Is there something I'm missing?