DHCP and Cox Cable

[Robert A. Klahn]

One thing that I did when faced with a similar situation is that I wrote a cron job that would run on a regular basis that detected the change of IP address and notified me when it did. I had the notification go thru syslog, but you could do it via email, pager, whatever. I could recreate a similar script quite easily, if there is intrest.

Now if you are hitting the web site by name, vs. IP, then you are going to have to do a DNS change each time the IP changes, but that is, I suppose, a nit in all this.

Also, you are probably going to have problems accessing your webserver from outside the COX network, because they are probably blocking port 80 from outside their network. You are going to have to find a port that they are not blocking, and run your webserver on that port.

Bob.

On Wed, 23 Jan 2002 10:50:23 -0700
"Mark Phillips" <phillips@usa.net> wrote:

> I am hoping you can help me with a small problem with my Cox service.
> 
> I have a web server behind my firewall and I used to be able to access it
> because I had a fixed IP. I switched over to the new Cox service, and Cox is
> changing my IP address. Is there anyway to get to my web server through my
> firewall on a consistent basis? I use the server for projects and need to
> access it from the road. I am not a networking expert, so I am not sure how
> to do this.
> 
> I can't use the web pages provided by Cox because I have servlets running
> with JSP, EJB, etc. on the server.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Mark Phillips
> 
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