Static IP with ADSL, Prolog etc?

[ic]

Hi,

been talking 2 Telkom about getting an ADSL line 4 a small business, & they tell me u only get a dynamic IP with Prolog.

Is this true, or is there a way 2 get a static IP address with ADSL512K?

I haven't had time 2 investigate other ADSL ISP options like Tiscali etc.

Reason: I would like 2 b able 2 have my own web & mail server.

IC

 

[Deckert]

All you get from Telkom is a dymanic IP, no matter what the package. However, you can still host your website and a mail-server behind an ADSL line. Investigate options such as DynDNS.

Your IP will remain the same for many days and when it changes, the DynDNS package simply updates your new IP. You can use the free service or, if you're planning on running a more professional business, you can use their paid service and fully register your own domain. And it works well!

--deckert

 

[ic]

Thanks, almighty google yeilded way too many results for dyndns, i got stuck in2 dyndns.org, should i b considering other dyndns', if so what do u recommend?

ic

 

[DFantom]

AFAIK there are some companies that offer a static ip on adsl, such as storm, didata and ods.
Although a heard a nasty rumour that there might be a "bug" in telkoms adsl system that keeps putting users from those companies into the throttled (ie when you've gone over your bandwidth) at the start of the month even if they have not gone over their bandwidth.
So you might want to look at other solutions

--
D>Fantom

 

[guest2013-1]

Also, there is mail software out there that interacts with exchange server, and allows you to download and serve mail without the need of a static ip address

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[ic]

noone,

that would b gr8, do u know offhand of examples?

 

[stoke]

When I was using adsl, I used dns4me.com, it was so simple to use it's embarrasing. The only catch is that international dyndns means that capped people will struggle to get your ip address off the international dns servers, and, most of these internation sites cannot do .co.za domains.

In order to use the software that noone is talking about, you have to get a mail hosing company (e.g. teklom) into the picture. They recieve your mail in one large account, and then your exchange server fetches it from that account. The software distributes it to the individual mailboxes, and buggers up the recieved date at the same time, but it's free. I got mine from the ms exchange / small business server site itself. There's a link there somewhere.