Re: How important is static IP?

[Andy Laurence <andy@xxxxxxx>]

> 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...)

Why not?  I have an address from dns2go.com, and also have
andylaurence.co.uk 
on the same box.

> 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... :-)

Same here ... andy@xxxxxxx ... I'm still sorting DNS, so it's not 
perfect ;-)

> 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.

Interesting ... I'll have to try that....

Andy


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