prez13 Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 i am looking to run a few servers from home and i was wondering what is the best way to get a static ip with my home ip address being dynamic. thanks,prez Quote Link to comment
danioj Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 (edited) Personally I prefer to set the static IP address of my server in my router (by specifying MAC address usually) and then set all clients to DHCP. Easy Peasy. I clearly didn't read your post. Sorry. What I think you need is dynamic dns service. There are a number of Apps (aka containers) that will manage this for you once you have signed up. A good one is here: Edited March 15, 2017 by danioj Quote Link to comment
prez13 Posted March 15, 2017 Author Share Posted March 15, 2017 1 minute ago, danioj said: Personally I prefer to set the static IP address of my server in my router (by specifying MAC address usually) and then set all clients to DHCP. Easy Peasy. not an internal ip an external ip Quote Link to comment
danioj Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 (edited) 6 minutes ago, prez13 said: not an internal ip an external ip Yeah, sorry. I re-read (well read once) and amended my reply. Essentially a Dynamic DNS service (Like Duck DNS) is usually a free service which will point a DNS (sub domains of duckdns.org) to an IP address of your choice. What the container will do is maintain the currency of the IP address (ie if/when it changes) with the service provider you choose so you can always access your server from the DNS you choose without having to manually manage it. Edited March 15, 2017 by danioj Quote Link to comment
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