Thousands of people are coming online using the new ADSL and Cable Modem systems from BT and others. These provide a permanent Internet connection for around £40 a month. Ironically, by allocating dynamic IP adresses instead of providing permanent ones, these systems also prevent subscribers from hosting Internet services, which was the original reason the Internet came into being.
The solution to this is the Dynamic Internet Connection Publisher. DICPublisher queries a mail server for your "real" (external) IP address and writes it into a webpage. It then publishes the page on your regular ISP-maintained website. Visitors to the page can be automatically redirected to your home server, or they can use the information to connect via a custom client (ftp, quake, etc.). It then waits for a while and re-checks your IP. If it has changed, it publishes a new page.
You are in complete control:
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You specify the mail server to query. You set the name of the HTML file to publish. You set the redirect delay. You specify the ftp site to publish to. You set the system cycle time.
DICPublisher keeps you informed of your current IP address and cycle time. It allows you to change settings at any time and store your settings as the default. |
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DICPublisher is extremely stable and will run on any Java-enabled machine. |
The next release is already under development. It will store multiple settings "profiles" and allow the use of HTML templates giving complete flexibility in the design of your DICPublisher webpage.
If you'd like to try DICPublisher you can download it here. All enquiries to Me, here.
Go to the DICPublisher main site with help pages and FAQ's.