RE: How important is static IP?

["Ray Barnett" <lists@xxxxxxx>]

You can host a mail server using a dynamic DNS server. The one thing that you cannot do with a dynamic IP (I am pretty sure) is host a proper domain - you need a fixed IP for that. Which was the sole reason I elected for a fixed IP - I now host several domains from the one fixed IP on the end of an ADSL line.

 

Ray.

-----Original Message-----
From: stuart_cummings [mailto:stuart_cummings@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 28 May 2002 13:24
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxxSubject: [ukha_d] How important is static IP?

It seems a few of us are trying to decide which ADLS ISP to go with
at the moment, so I'd like to know just how important those who've
already taken the plunge feel it is to have static IP?

Which HA toys might need static now or in the near future?

I presume if I want to run a mail server I need static for my DNS MX
record to point to. Is this correct, or could you get away with
something like dyndns? My guess is that dyndns would sometimes be out
of date and mail would get bounced.

All help and advice greatly appreciated by me and many others I'm
sure.

SC


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