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I've always had good luck with no-ip . Same deal though.

I sure wish I had some domains hosted with them so I could move them away. But I smelled their stink since the early days.

www.No-IP.com for me. I started with them for the free dynamic DNS service they offered, then over the years kept using them for my DNS provider even after no longer needing dynamic DNS. Their interface is good, never caught them being down in about 10 years of using them, and the one time I had to contact tech support I received good knowledgable service.

Only complaint I have is the generic stock photo of the girl on their main page. I've seen her for years now and tired of seeing her there, and on other sites.

Thought she was hot at first, but my love for her has faded. ;)

first they better shut down every redirector service that doesn't rely on their official DNS:
http://navig8.to/
http://kickme.to/
http://no-ip.com/
etc...

Then we'll be forced to enter IP-addresses manually. Surely that will stop all piracy, because we all know pirates are lazy and stupid and won't know what to do!!

We sure didn't invent like 20 other protocols we could use or anything... I've never heard of anything like Direct Connect, Gnutella2, NNTP (usenet), BitTorrent (with DHT), Kademlia, Soulseek/Nicotine, FastTrack, OpenNap, P2PTV.

These idiots *ALWAYS* try this, they shut down one or two sites that were indexing movies or games or whatever. It makes a difference for like a week, 2 people that probably deserved it end up in trouble, 20,000 morons have to spend a few minutes researching how to steal things again, and most of them figure it out. A couple people that have lots of money and know better than to waste their time are further discouraged. A bunch of lawyers and lobbyists get richer. Some detectives get promoted. And everyone else gets used to the stupidity of the whole thing. I don't know if I should even feel sorry for their wasted efforts. It's nice to see them cluelessly claiming victory over these things, but that effort could be so much better spent on some other problem like homelessness. Of course, the politicians solution would probably be to relocate all the homeless people to another city, or just harass them with police. Are these policy makers just lazy or something? I don't see how it's so difficult to come up with a solution to a problem when you have a proper education...

While there are many good and some great open software and hardware designs for automotive diagnostics they really lag far behind what the dealerships and mechanics that pay have to not only diagnose but adjust your car's computers.

One of my passions is motorcycling and I have a Suzuki B-King. This bike is the ugly cousin of the insanely popular Suzuki Hayabusa. There are a handful of folks that have create designs for the hardware interface and complete software tools that let you completely control the system.
You can watch the entire datafeed from the ECU in real time and remap the ignition timing.

You can buy adapters pre-made or buy your own. The software is free and open too: http://macmadigan.no-ip.com/ecueditor/

The point is that in certain areas where enthusiast and hackers have come together there are great options with enormous power for a shade-tree but depending on your make and model there may not be so much out there other than basics.

Yes.

These guys do it on a semi-permanent or temporary basis for free, and I'm sure that is more computationally expensive than otherwise. Why should it cost so much money for a permanent one?

And I forgot the link:

http://www.no-ip.com/services/managed_dns/free_dynamic_dns.html

*coughs*

Don't know nothing about doing this either...

Port 80 Redirects

Many residential ISPs Block port 80, No-IP Free DNS enables you to run a webserver on a non-standard port, yet users accessing your site never have to enter a port number. For example http://yourname.no-ip.com/ can redirect to http://yourname.no-ip.com:8833/

And I forgot the link:

http://www.no-ip.com/services/managed_dns/free_dynamic_dns.html

*coughs*

Don't know nothing about doing this either...

Port 80 Redirects

Many residential ISPs Block port 80, No-IP Free DNS enables you to run a webserver on a non-standard port, yet users accessing your site never have to enter a port number. For example http://yourname.no-ip.com/ can redirect to http://yourname.no-ip.com:8833/

And I forgot the link:

http://www.no-ip.com/services/managed_dns/free_dynamic_dns.html

*coughs*

Don't know nothing about doing this either...

Port 80 Redirects

Many residential ISPs Block port 80, No-IP Free DNS enables you to run a webserver on a non-standard port, yet users accessing your site never have to enter a port number. For example http://yourname.no-ip.com/ can redirect to http://yourname.no-ip.com:8833/

All the problems with running FTP on a home desktop machine are associated with having a dynamic IP rather than static, and otherwise with the fact that FTP kind of sucks as a protocol.

http://no-ip.com/

That is all.

Helical antennas are quite common. They provide acceptable gain, but more importantly they are circularly polarized which is a great boon for receiving signals from tumbling spacecraft such as Amateur Radio Satellites. A strange instance of a helical antenna is the Quadrifilar Helical antenna. This egg-beater shaped beast is perfect for receiving circularly-polarized signals (from weather sats, for instance). I had one cut for 70cm on my roof for a long time.

No-ip.com.

They have a POP3 service available that can host your Domain's e-mail service for you.

See Here.

Wow, you live in Fredneck? I used to live in Rockville, about 35 years ago. It was a bit different then ... we were a tiny little town in the middle of a plain.

Yeah, I agree ... just give me the damn pipe and don't you worry about what I use it for, because it's none of your goddamn business. I also have no interest in using Comcast's email services (for oh-so-many reasons) so I switched to using No-IP.com's alternate port SMTP. Works great, inexpensive, and would probably solve your problem. I still poll Comcast's POP3 mailbox just to receive any notifications and whatnot, but I haven't sent or received any mail through Comcast for years. I also found a Web site hosting company that allows me to point their system's MX records directly at my in-house mail server. No polling! Damn fast too. I've been on the phone with someone in the process of sending me a message, and as soon as they click SEND it pops into my inbox.

You can use the free DNS services at No-IP.com - they'll redirect all port 80 traffic inbound to that site to port 8080. Change the value in your server and you're good to go! I'm using it right now for my site, hosted on the FIOS line, and it works just dandy.

Oh, I agree. Let's face it, the bulk of Internet users couldn't configure themselves out of the bathroom, and that's probably okay: most people will never have a privacy problem because their "confidential communications" are of no interest to anyone but themselves. Those of us that do wish to maintain our privacy should take the proper steps. It's all matter of what risks you're comfortable taking. I have a GMail account because it's an interesting application, but I don't use it for anything consequential.

More to the point, nothing is secure from government snooping if they're really out to get you ... but that's no reason to make it easy for them. I mean, why help make your typical government fishing expedition fruitful? And let's not forget non-governmental privacy risks: just ask the good folks at Media Defender how they are feeling about GMail right about now.

Storing all your confidential materials on a remote server that is not physically under your control is just asking for trouble. It is a risk I choose not to take. Unfortunately, I think you're right: the perceived risk of commercial providers (which has absolutely nothing to do with the real risk, whatever that might be) isn't very high.

Check out No-IP anyway. Their services aren't free, but they're inexpensive, and in the past four or five years I've used them they've been rock-solid. They might have a solution to your incoming Port 25 problem.

Even though my ISP states that I have a dynamic IP address, my *router* will allow me to set a standard one (192.168.1.x). There are plenty of (free) software solutions that will translate your dynamic IP to a pseudo-domain. I've been using NO-IP to allow myself VNC access for a few years with no problems.

I'd first try and get your domains registered with whoever you're hosting with -- might be easier to deal with. Second, check out http://www.no-ip.com/

get one for $200K http://www.gorobotics.net/The-News/Military/South- Korea-Develops-Machine%11Gun-Sentry-Robot/ or build your own http://ringmast3r.no-ip.com/sentry/

We are in the similar situation having Exchange in-house behind a (quite stable) DSL line. Thankfully the DSL has been out only about 30 minutes total in our first year, but unfortunately our Exchange server can't say the same. We've gotten an amazing value using a backup mx service, which silently queues mail for us until our server returns. It works amazingly well-- once our server is back up, the queued mail comes flowing in. Its a beautiful thing.

We specifically use EasyDNS's DNS service which includes the backup MX service. We use their DNS Plus service which only costs about $40/year, and allows us to use their CLUSTER of backup MX servers (How cool is that!?)! Its also available on their DNS-only service (~$20/yr). I don't work for EasyDNS (just a happy customer). You can also get the same service from lots of other places as well.

Realistically, I think you need to use an external DNS service to do this for network outages (since other mail servers will need access to your domain's MX records to find to the backup MX servers). For us, this meant we needed to use a different DNS server inside our local network. The external dns points people to our mail server's public IP. The internal dns points to our internal ips.

Another note, we use PFSense as our firewall (great product!). Recently, I think I saw support for NAT Reflection was added (allowing internal machines to contact internal servers using a public IP address), which might negate the need for the "split" dns described above. Haven't tried that yet, though.

Building one? Like this?

http://itoph.no-ip.com/~toph/pictures/2006/iPod%20 in%20Mo/pages/page_9.html

Its not a great picture, and I've wrapped the white cables with black cable holding tubes since then... but you don't have to build this stuff. Unless you want to. That's cool too.

Some ISPs won't let you run a SMTP server though, in which case there really isn't much you can do (especially if it's the only ISP in your area as seems to be frequently the case in the US).

There are services out there that will accept email as your MX and forward it to your smtp server on a port other than 25. These people for example (no affiliation, no recommendation).

Of course as the story illustrates, there is no absolute security. Your house may burn down, an asteroid may obliterate your region,

Offsite backups...

or you might just type a space in the wrong place in your "rm" command ;)

Or, as happened to me, when a system gets loaded heavily, konsole will rearrange characters in its input buffer. "rm -rf /var/tmp/some_obsolete_folder<enter>" somehow became "rm -rf /var<enter>//ttmpssoooomeeee_bll_fdr"

I was not amused.

Rich

neat stuff.

you could use the ie infobar for that: http://px.no-ip.com/proj/ieinfobar/ (see the _readme.txt or if you have IE available the html page for a demo)

If you don't want to change settings every time your coworker's IP changes check out No-IP's dynamic DNS service. I've been hosting many live services from my home network for years including POP3\SMTP email and it's been impeccably stable, and totally free!

Not exactly true... http://www.429bauhaus.no-ip.com/Apple/apple_powerc d.html

Portable, check, CD, check, plays music, check.

- The "offensive, embarassing, pornographic" clause is overly broad (there were a lot of other words included like "distressing" and "threatening"... ridiculous). They explicitly state that all these things are against terms of use regardless of their legality. The terms of use policy only has to prohibit using the connection for anything illegal, that would protect them when their users do illegal things like distributing child pornography.

- Restrictions on business/comercial use, servers (also banned by my ISP) and routers are similarly ridiculous. If they don't want you using all the bandwidth, then do it the direct way: with a bandwidth cap! Some idiot that got owned by viruses or someone sharing massive files on p2p will use more bandwidth than I will if I set up wifi securely so I can check my e-mail from my living room or whatever useless crap people use wifi for. You're right that there's no way to detect a router if done properly (I have two NICs in my PC and use the extra one to route Internet to my laptop, and there's no way to detect that), but they supposedly send people around the building with equipment to detect wireless routers.

- Why should I put up with a restriction on sharing my connection with my neighbor? It's my connection! If my neighbor uses too much bandwidth we'll hit the bandwidth cap and realize, "oh no, we'd better buy another connection!"

- NoIP doesn't solve my problem: http://www.no-ip.com/faq/catid/3/id/14 . And guess out what my IP address is:
aldimond@cartoofar ~ $ /sbin/ifconfig ...
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:04:5A:7C:2D:3A
inet addr:10.71.0.122 Bcast:10.71.15.255 Mask:255.255.240.0

My ISP has NAT set up on routers I can't control. Unless there's a tunneling feature of NoIP that I don't know about, NoIP doesn't help me.

I know that if you think from the perspective of an ISP most of their provisions have benefits for them. But as a customer what I want is a real Internet connection: some bandwidth, a routable IP address (I don't care if it's dynamic, because dynamic IPs don't actually change that often; last year we had a different ISP that gave us routable but dynamic IPs and I just checked my IP every morning to make sure it handn't changed, and it never did. I used www.mysteryrobot.com to remember it), and no restrictions besides legality on use. That is what I consider real Internet service, and if you sell me anything less and call it "Internet service" I consider that a lie and an insult. Which is what I consider my current situation.

They're also technically incompetant: for some reason there was some proxy server software running on some of their equipment that blocked people from accessing anything on port 8080. My University runs some web services on port 8080, and people were having a hard time getting to them. The error message was from TinyProxy and really looked to me like something that clearly was the ISP's fault. I googled to find websites on 8080 and checked them from within and without our network and found them all to work outside but fail with the same error message inside. I reported these results to the ISP. They sent out an e-mail to our building saying that the University was blocking people from our building. They contacted the University. The admin responsible for the site in question was understandably skeptical. It took the ISP more than a month to fix the problem, and the whole time they kept repeating that there was nothing in their equipment that would block 8080. Then after it was fixed and I asked for an explanation they simply didn't respond.

In a certain sense you can only access locations that have a contract with the ISP, because of the way that Internet peering works. Certainly SBC would be doing something quite insidious with VoIP, no doubt about it. But the point o

As far as the NAT, check out http://www.no-ip.com./ I use their free service to ssh into my home machine on a cable network without a static IP. Been doing it for over a year and haven't had any problems yet.

I'm not sure how that's going to help him if he's behind a NAT. While not technically a requirement, a machine behind a NAT will usually have an RFC 1918 IP address (10.x.x.x, 172.16.x.x, or 192.168.x.x). Since these are not routable on the public Internet, a dynamic DNS service isn't going to help him a bit.

• The 'offensive, embarrassing, pornographic' clause is there to save them if you start distributing kiddie porn
• The restriction on business/commercial use is to keep you from taking advantage of their system by running a server or sucking up all of their bandwidth with multiple employees
• The wifi thing is to keep you from sharing a connection with all your neighbors that don't want to pay for the service - although if you do it right I don't know how they could detect you running a router.

If you want to know more about how chinese censorship works and how people are getting around it, check out some of these mp3s:
http://the1.no-ip.com/~the1/spoken%20word/hope_gre at-firewall.mp3
http://the1.no-ip.com/~the1/spoken%20word/hope_cdc -hacktivism-1.mp3
http://the1.no-ip.com/~the1/spoken%20word/hope_cdc -hacktivism-2.mp3

If you want to know more about how chinese censorship works and how people are getting around it, check out some of these mp3s:
http://the1.no-ip.com/~the1/spoken%20word/hope_gre at-firewall.mp3
http://the1.no-ip.com/~the1/spoken%20word/hope_cdc -hacktivism-1.mp3
http://the1.no-ip.com/~the1/spoken%20word/hope_cdc -hacktivism-2.mp3

If you want to know more about how chinese censorship works and how people are getting around it, check out some of these mp3s:
http://the1.no-ip.com/~the1/spoken%20word/hope_gre at-firewall.mp3
http://the1.no-ip.com/~the1/spoken%20word/hope_cdc -hacktivism-1.mp3
http://the1.no-ip.com/~the1/spoken%20word/hope_cdc -hacktivism-2.mp3

the thought of that scares me... lol

http://www.429bauhaus.no-ip.com/Images/7100/Inside .jpg

One to provide Wholesale Telecoms and the other to provide Retail Telecoms services.

This is so horribly over due!

We may be on the verge, finally, of seeing some real competition in the Australian teleco market place.

Telstra naturally are not very happy about what is now an approved [by cabinet] package, which will force them [Telstra] to create seperage network and retail divisions, with separate premises and management but under the same company structure.

If all goes to plan, the government (coalition) could steamroll ahead and sell its majority share holding ( 51.8 per cent stake ) in Telstra before the end of next year. Something which has been high on the governments agenda for some time now.

Sure that's going to make them a truck load of money, it's (the sale of 51.8% of Telstra is a lot of share value) going to do that no matter how you look at it.

What does all this mean for Australia?

Well we could perhaps look just accross the Tasman to the windy city of Wellington, in New Zealand, for an example of just what a completely deregulated teleco marketplace can do if you allow it.

Businesses and individual end users in Wellington, can gain access to Data and Voice services that the rest of the world ( except perhaps for Singapore with their Interent Corridor ) dreams of.

With 10 megabit and 100 megabit, and even gigabit connections for tens or hundreds of dollars a month, zero data usage charges, and peering for one and all if you want it, Wellington has shown that a completely deregulated telecommunications industry can work, and will work, if you allow it to.

We won't in the near future, say the next five years even, see the likes of what NZ has been able to achieve here in Australia, well not from what I can see gazing into my crystal ball anyway, as there's a legacy culture to be left behind before we can see Australia make major leaps forward.

I'm hoping that with Telstra now having to form a legitimate Wholesale arm, freed up and allowed to sell outside of it's previous one and only customer, being Telstra itself ( oh and the occasional carrier and ISP when they had time of course ), Telstra Wholesale may be allowed to sell core services at prices that would allow 3rd party providers, in particular the DSL providers, or the Broadband market at least, provide now ADSL 2+ services of 22 megabit speeds, throughout the country at prices equal to what we now pay for 1.5 megabit links.

What does the general media have to report? Here's a few links for further homework on the topic:

• Whirlpool News
• ABC Online
• The Australian
• News.com.au
• Australian IT
• The Age

Let's hope that with new management, and a sense of responsibility to the nation, the new Telstra's can both give back a little of what they have so easily come by, and finally deliver on the government's Digital Nation promise.

More to come on the temp home of Dez's Blog at http://mosman.no-ip.com

All I can say is LOL cable modem server, hey everyone check out this video! Funny Airplane

This one?! http://www.olympus2.no-ip.com/usbvibe1.gif

Bill Atkinson left the two PARC visits with a mistaken understanding of the capabilities of the Smalltalk software. While Tesler was giving a demo, Atkinson thought that he had seen two windows layered on top of each other, though they were just bordering each other.

I doubt the reliability of this story... This must have been a very early version of Smalltalk if it didn't have overlapping windows.

http://squab.no-ip.com:8080/collab/uploads/61/smal ltalk-72-1977.jpg
http://squab.no-ip.com:8080/collab/uploads/61/smal ltalk-72-simple.jpg
http://squab.no-ip.com:8080/collab/uploads/St-76.p ng

Bill Atkinson left the two PARC visits with a mistaken understanding of the capabilities of the Smalltalk software. While Tesler was giving a demo, Atkinson thought that he had seen two windows layered on top of each other, though they were just bordering each other.

I doubt the reliability of this story... This must have been a very early version of Smalltalk if it didn't have overlapping windows.

http://squab.no-ip.com:8080/collab/uploads/61/smal ltalk-72-1977.jpg
http://squab.no-ip.com:8080/collab/uploads/61/smal ltalk-72-simple.jpg
http://squab.no-ip.com:8080/collab/uploads/St-76.p ng

Bill Atkinson left the two PARC visits with a mistaken understanding of the capabilities of the Smalltalk software. While Tesler was giving a demo, Atkinson thought that he had seen two windows layered on top of each other, though they were just bordering each other.

I doubt the reliability of this story... This must have been a very early version of Smalltalk if it didn't have overlapping windows.

http://squab.no-ip.com:8080/collab/uploads/61/smal ltalk-72-1977.jpg
http://squab.no-ip.com:8080/collab/uploads/61/smal ltalk-72-simple.jpg
http://squab.no-ip.com:8080/collab/uploads/St-76.p ng

"Cracked in 24 hours"? I 'cracked' it so long ago (Proof) I'm surprised that this is even news. And you don't even need javascript enabled - all you need is "WinGenCookie=validation=0;" in your cookie. So just paste this into your location on any microsoft.com page: javascript:document.cookie='WinGenCookie=validatio n=0; expires=01 Jan 2999 00:00:00 GMT'; void 0

I mean, it was just so easy and obvious; I can't believe everyone else hadn't already found out about the easy ways to bypass it long ago.

Oh come on the UN has a long list of accomplishments. Just because they're primarily political accomplishments, doesn't make them any less meaningful

Vending machine! Hah, in my day we only had fridges that looked like this!

No, he didn't. This guy did.

See http://zeikfried.no-ip.com/ for more info.

http://zeikfried.no-ip.com/
Dumbledore dies in the new Harry potter book.

http://zeikfried.no-ip.com/
Dumbledore dies in the new harry potter book

http://zeikfried.no-ip.com/
Dumbledore dies in the new harry potter book

I just host on a different port and use a full web redirect from no-ip.com.

http://www.no-ip.com/ quite simple, has a linux how-to as well. Totally free for "living room" use.

http://the1.no-ip.com/~the1/johnbench.txt

You can download the john the ripper source code here:

http://www.openwall.com//john/

and then build it and run your own tests.

I *almost* got a bar code tattoo, but I opted for binary instead :)

Out of all my tattoos, I get asked about it the most.
(It's the ascii for my daughter's name)

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