DynIP v1.22 A IP Poster for people with dynamic IP addresses (Obsolete)

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DynIP is a simple little application to allow you to post your dynamic IP address up to your web site. This is the case for most internet users who connect to the internet through an ISP which assigns them a different IP address each time they connect.

Making the IP address of your machine widely available, allows other people on the internet to connect to your machine as if your machine was like any other permanent site on the internet. This allows people on the Internet to connect to your web and FTP server running on your local machine. It is also useful for people who are running simple internet chat programs which do not use a permanent Internet server for registration.

You should be aware that by making your IP address public, leaves your machine open to the same security risks normal internet sites have to cope with, so make sure you are aware of the security issues first.

When run the DynIP application presents the following dialog:

Download Instructions

• If you haven't already got the MFC DLL’s on your machine (MFC42.DLL in your Windows system directory), then grab them from http://www.naughter.com/download/vcredist.exe.
• You must have the Microsoft wininet.dll properly installed. This will be the case if you have Internet Explorer 3 or 4 installed. This DLL is a high level interface to the FTP, HTTP and gopher protocols and is used by Internet Explorer itself for these protocols. Note: This program has not been tested with any Netscape browser and may not work in this environment.
• Download the enclosed zip file. This contains the DynIP binaries, html files and documentation.

Updates

21 June 2008

• Please note that this code is now obsolete as IMHO there are much more refined ways of achieving what DynIP was originally designed for. For example check out Dynamic DNS from DynDNS. Alternatively a lot of broadband routers these days have Dynamic DNS functionality built in. For example my Linksys RV042 router supports services from www.dyndns.org amongst others.

V1.22 (10 November 1998)

• Values are now stored in an ini file instead of the registry.
• The ini file to use can be modified via the command line. To use a new ini file to load and store its settings use Dynip.exe "/ini:ini filename". e.g. to use the c:\dynip.ini file to load and store settings you can use the command line Dynip.exe /ini:c:\dynip.exe. This allows you to have multiple configurations for DynIP if you want to post your online page to multiple web sites.

V1.21 (7 May 1998)

• Fixed a bug in the code which was causing the program to fail when returning the 2nd or greater IP address on a multihoned device.

V1.2 (4 February 1998)

• Now supports choice of ftp binary or ascii transfer.
• Now supports command line automation. To send the connected page using the command line without bringing up the DynIP dialog use the following command line "DynIP.exe /connect". To send the not connected page use the command line "DynIP.exe /disconnect". If you are on a multihoned machine then you can specify what IP address to send using the command line /addressX where X is the nth index (0 based) of the IP address to send. This corresponds to the position of the IP address you want to send in the list box on the DynIP dialog. e.g. to send the connected page containing the 2nd IP address of your machine, use the command line "DynIP.exe /connect /address1".

V1.11 (10 November 1997)

• Now returns more verbose error messages for some Internet errors.

V1.1 (28 October 1997)

• DynIP now supports multihomed hosts.
• A refresh button to allow the IP address(s) to be retrieved immediately has been added.