[TriLUG] Questions on dyndns.org

[Bill Vinson]

On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 02:29:30PM -0400, Ken Mink wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 12:43, Bill Vinson wrote:
> <SNIP>
> > 
> > Actually, that isn't completely correct. DNS has nothing to do with it
> > but Dynamic DNS services do. Some of these service will take foo.bar.com
> > and point it to 24.25.74.36:8080. So, yes DynamicDNS can take ports into
> > consideration, but it is not actually part of the DNS system that you
> > are thinking of.
> 
> Can I get more detail on how this works, 'cause I'm really skeptical. If
> you're really saying the DynamicDNS services are doing web redirection,
> I'll buy it. But if my application tries to do a socket connect to
> foo.bar.com port 80, resolver won't change the port number on me after
> doing the lookup.

I wish I could, but it seems my current service, dyndns, doesn't offer
this, but other services I have used in the past did offer it. I do
think Jeremy had the right idea in his last post...

Bill