Paul on 17 Jul 2004 06:31:02 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] DSL w/o local phone


Howard Bloom wrote:

Why do you need a public address for web hosting?

I run 5 sites on a 233 MHz piece of crap in my second bedroom on a Comcast
Dynamic connection.


Even a DHCP-assigned IP must be a public IP if anyone on the Internet is to access it. Using something like DynDNS just allows you to point names to what ever the current IP happens to be.
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