subdomain and IP address

[GregF]

If you're using the yourname.subsonic.org subdomain, does it act within the program similarly to dyndns? Does it track your IP if it's changing and reflect that as it redirects? Mine hasn't changed in the week or so that I've been using Subsonic so I'm not sure if it's dynamic or not, but just wanted to know if anyone knows how this works...thanks.

[burjast]

It does not track ip like dyndns, it is static

[GregF]

How does it determine your IP? I'm not the most technologically adept, but if my IP changes does the subdomain become worthless then?

[GregF]

This post makes it sound like it would track it if your IP changed:

http://forum.subsonic.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2634

[einsteinx2]

This post makes it sound like it would track it if your IP changed:

http://forum.subsonic.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2634

I was under the impression as well that it did track your IP like dyndns... Maybe we could get some clarification from Sindre?

[sindre_mehus]

Hi,

It does support changing IP addresses, the same way dyndns do.

It works like this: Your personal Subsonic server connects every 2 hours to a central backend server. The backend server inspects the IP address and updates its local database of (name, IP) mappings.

Hope this clarifies it.

Sindre

[wraithdu]

I've got a little problem here, not sure if you can help. I have my home router routing packets to my subsonic server. However my external port is different from my internal port, and this is confusing my *.subsonic.org address. Any way to add a configurable port setting to the feature in 4.0?

[sindre_mehus]

I've got a little problem here, not sure if you can help. I have my home router routing packets to my subsonic server. However my external port is different from my internal port, and this is confusing my *.subsonic.org address. Any way to add a configurable port setting to the feature in 4.0?

Sorry, I actually removed the option of specifying different private and public ports in 4.0, since this was far too confusing for the majority of users.

[wraithdu]

Any way you could do this on your backend on a case by case email basis? It's not vital, I have a dynamic DNS service as well, but it might help other users who don't.

[sindre_mehus]

Any way you could do this on your backend on a case by case email basis? It's not vital, I have a dynamic DNS service as well, but it might help other users who don't.

I can manually set up forwarding to any static IP or domain name, but it won't be possible to keep the IP address dynamically updated, while overriding the port number.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

[deejay2302]

I'm doing it this way:

When I select a www.dyndns.org address to domain name and give my current IP.

For example:

Hostname: blablabla.selfip.com with my current IP. Ur current Ip u can find with www.whatismyip.com

Then I configure my router. And imagine the following:

Provider selection: dyndns.org
Domain Name: blablabla.selfip.com
User Name: The dyndns username!
Password: The dyndns password!

After this I sign up for a free subdomain provider.

For example: www.coolix.com.

As a "URL of your page:" I give http://blablabla.selfip.com:8080/
(8080 is my Subsonic port!) Dont forget the / after the 8080!

Save and working. I hope i can help you