Posted by Corona on 06/24/05 18:55

"Andy Dingley" <dingbat@codesmiths.com> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 19:25:01 GMT, "Corona"
> <corona_moon-no-friggin-spam@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>The problem is that the local page has a dynamic IP address and is behind
>>a
>>firewall. So, I wrote an application that periodotically goes out on the
>>net
>>and gets my public address.
>
> This is a DNS issue. If you can't fix it that way, then do it by
> server-side scripting. You can't fix it with HTML.

I'm not sure what you're talking about here... The problem is not in finding
my public IP. It's replacing the 404 page with a "Temporarily not available"
page when the site can't find my dynamic IP.

> In general, dump a M$oft OS for this sort of task and put a Unix box
> somewhere visible. M$oft's IP-level tools are rubbish.

Well, as far as that goes, I like MS and ASP.NET. I don't see the draw for
Linux and the like...

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