RE: How important is static IP?

["Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>]

Personally, I don't generally find having dynamic IP a problem for home
use.

As previously mentioned, just about the only thing I can't get it to do is
to host a provate domain. - It's usually tied to the namespace that the
DDNS 
provider owns, so for instance, DynDNS,org have about 20 domain trees that
you can choose to be under, hence I have Paulgordon.homeip.net, but I can't
have gordon-net.co.uk which I also own (but am about to allow to
lapse...)

a couple of small points to bear in mind:

1: - you *CAN* have an SMTP feed to a dynamic IP address - I have one 
working perfectly, - mail to paul@xxxxxxx to see it in 
action... :-)

2: - you do *NOT* _need_ an MX record at all to receive mail, - you only
need an MX record if your SMTP listening server is on a different IP
address 
to that which your DNS "A" record resolves... - Do an NSLOOKUP on
paulgordon.homeip.net, you will see it resolves to 80.1.127.35 - as my SMTP
mail server is listening to port 25 on that IP, I do NOT have (or need) an
MX record configured.

HTH

Paul G.



>From: "Chris Bond" <chris@xxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
>Subject: RE: [ukha_d] How important is static IP?
>Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 13:27:09 +0100
>
> > 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?
>
>Well if you want to use SMTP mail its very important and it's the
best
>mail method to use, don't need to mess with pop3/imap :)
>
> > Which HA toys might need static now or in the near future?
>
>Lots :)
>
> > 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.
>
>I'd stay away from dyndns for SMTP mail, there are a few people
that
>offer backup mx but at the price you pay u might as well get a
static
>ip.
>
>Eclipse charge 26quid all inc for Adsl with 5 static ips :)
>http://www.eclipse.net.uk.
>
>Kind Regards,
>Chris Bond
>




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