Pointing F2S provided domain at own IP

[MrSneeze]

Hello from another Plusnet refugee

Is it possible to replicate the some what controversial username in RDNS set up that Plusnet operate on their Premier accounts by pointing the domain provided by F2S or a sub-domain like thismachine.username.f2s.com at my WAN IP address?

I understand how it is some people considered this a bad thing n'all that jazz, but for me it was especially useful for developing the open source project I lead and I simply got used to letting the other developers and curious individuals check out the changes I'd made without me having to upload them to the sourceforge site or commit them to CVS so they can checkout the changes and so forth and it's kinda got stuck that way and although I'm loving what F2S are giving me, like the speed, the lack of no FUP and no no-FUP and most importantly no traffic shaping I'm somewhat disappointed that something like this doesn't exist, or at least I can't find it.

I've already tried searching here for this but the only similar matches I can find all deal with accomplishing this with a domain name purchased separately or through F2S and ideally I'd like to be able to do this without having to do that mostly because I can't justify purchasing a domain name that would otherwise be used for little else. And no I don't fancy using one of those no-ip.com type services. I used to use one of those when I was with BTOpenworld and in my experience it didn't always work.

I know I could easily tell everyone what my ipi-octet-octet-octet-octet.freedom2surf.net RDNS is, but it would simply be easier for both for them and myself to remember something like username.f2s.com.

I thank you.

[aos101]

Well if you don't want to use a no-ip type service like afraid.org which provies free DNS and a free subdomain, you could just setup a forward on your webspace to forward all users to your static IP address. Using PHP you could forward all users who visit username.f2s.com to your static IP address (so your IP would show in the address bar), or if you want to use your webspace front page for other stuff you could use something like username.f2s.com/dev or something. The PHP code for this would be something like:

PHP Code:

<?php
header("Location: http://83.67.XXX.XXX/");
?>

[MrSneeze]

I did actually want it so my IP address didn't show in the address bar, so it was a physical address pointing at my IP so redirecting is sort of out of the question. It's asking a lot I know.

Your suggestion of using PHP gave me an idea and I've now come up with a solution with involves Apache RewriteMod to catch the address entered to see if it exists on my F2S space and if not redirect the request to a PHP script which makes a HTTP connection back to my machine to fetch the page and then present it to the user complete with correct HTTP headers.

And it works. Hurrah! I'm just concerned how much it will eat into my website bandwidth quota because it does in affect require 2 lots of the same data one lot being received by the server and the second lot being sent out to the client.

[aos101]

Well your suggestion does work I suppose (although a bit overly complicated for my liking). You don't have a bandwidth quota as such on the webspace that comes free with you ADSL (but the CPU usage on the webserver is restricted) so you shouldn't need to worry about the bandwidth.