Dynamic DNS and IIS Web Servers Part I
by Pierre Boisvenue. 24/04/2007
Part I
Seeing things from a programmer’s perspective I thought that the mere fact that knowledge of HTML, DHTML, JavaScript and the latest .Net technologies would facilitate the setup of an Internet web application would be easy using Microsoft Internet information Server (IIS). As it turns out things are not that quite easy and clear cut in regards to search engines optimization commonly referred to as SEO.
The first roadblock I encountered was with Videotron, my Internet service provider (ISP), they prevent me with, as a paying customer, the capability of serving my own web site. They do so by blocking Internet users with the capability to easily connect to my home based Web Server by blocking port 80, the de facto standard port for HTTP communication.
The second roadblock is with the fact that Internet communication is done via a standard worldwide protocol called TCP/IP an Internet address assigned to you as a customer of Internet services. The problem however is that this Internet address assignment is dynamically assigned meaning that you will never be given the same IP address. Now this is not a problem for most Internet users that simply use a web browser to navigate the World Wide Web but for small websites it is.
This is where Domain name come into play. Domain name such as www.google.com and www.microsoft.com are easily recognizable URL or domains that redirect Internet user to a specific IP address. Big agencies can afford to pay large sums of money to gain access to top-level IP addresses that do not change they are STATIC. But for a small guy like me, my IP provider will give me whatever IP address is available from a pool of available IP addresses and we called this Dynamically assigned IP. But there is hope. For these reasons, an entire industry was created to serve the little guy like me by providing me with a Domain Name by redirecting a Domain name to a given IP address even thought there is no guarantee what IP address my IP provider will share. How it works is that a small program will be installed on my pc that will send my assigned IP address to the domain service provider and this will ensure that my domain name typed in a web browser will be recognized by a web surfer. Be sure to check out
IIS.Net for IIS 7 information.
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