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Topic: URL forwarding without giving up an IP address?
Hello,I'm a formal FreeDNS(.afraid.org) user and when looking at your URL forwarding service's options i notice that i am required to give an IP address.I simply want to link a free DynU domain to an URL, so i'm wondering why it is needed to enter an IP address in the first place.The URL forwarding service from FreeDNS don't ask for an IP (see attached image for an example).Best regards,Chris(tiaan)
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aDynuUser wrote:Hello,I'm a formal FreeDNS(.afraid.org) user and when looking at your URL forwarding service's options i notice that i am required to give an IP address.I simply want to link a free DynU domain to an URL, so i'm wondering why it is needed to enter an IP address in the first place.The URL forwarding service from FreeDNS don't ask for an IP (see attached image for an example).Best regards,Chris(tiaan)
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cobydecock wrote:I can't find an image attached to this post. I am able to just go into the Web Redirect area and put an URL for the alias which I want to redirect. Can you please specify the target and source here or re-attach the image to this post?
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Also can't edit/update my post.I can enter an URL in the Web Redirect without entering an IP, but one screen back there's always an IP address (the detected address of the logged in user).The thing is, my IP often changes and the sole reason why i want to Web Redirect is to prevent users from typing a long url.Since the forwarded URL is on a remote host/server, my IP address doesn't have anything to do with it. But still the DynU configuration screen tells me that its required to enter an IP address.
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And (if everything goes as planned), an attached image of the Web Redirect screen of the formal DDNS service i used (FreeDNS):
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You can enter a random IP as it will get overwritten by the web redirect entry.
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Ahh, i didn't know. Perhaps it would've been better if this was mentioned somewhere :)Thanks for the quick heads up, anthonywebuser!
(ps: do free DynU users also have a 5 hosts limit?)
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aDynuUser Joined: 9/14/2017 |
URL forwarding without giving up an IP address? Thursday, October 31, 2019 9:24 AM
Hello,I'm a formal FreeDNS(.afraid.org) user and when looking at your URL forwarding service's options i notice that i am required to give an IP address.I simply want to link a free DynU domain to an URL, so i'm wondering why it is needed to enter an IP address in the first place.The URL forwarding service from FreeDNS don't ask for an IP (see attached image for an example).Best regards,Chris(tiaan)
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cobydecock Joined: 3/23/2017 |
URL forwarding without giving up an IP address? Thursday, October 31, 2019 9:28 AM
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aDynuUser Joined: 9/14/2017 |
URL forwarding without giving up an IP address? Thursday, October 31, 2019 9:55 AM
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aDynuUser Joined: 9/14/2017 |
URL forwarding without giving up an IP address? Thursday, October 31, 2019 10:01 AM
Also can't edit/update my post.I can enter an URL in the Web Redirect without entering an IP, but one screen back there's always an IP address (the detected address of the logged in user).The thing is, my IP often changes and the sole reason why i want to Web Redirect is to prevent users from typing a long url.Since the forwarded URL is on a remote host/server, my IP address doesn't have anything to do with it. But still the DynU configuration screen tells me that its required to enter an IP address.
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aDynuUser Joined: 9/14/2017 |
URL forwarding without giving up an IP address? Thursday, October 31, 2019 10:02 AM
I'll try to attach the image once again for people's convenience:
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aDynuUser Joined: 9/14/2017 |
URL forwarding without giving up an IP address? Thursday, October 31, 2019 10:05 AM
And (if everything goes as planned), an attached image of the Web Redirect screen of the formal DDNS service i used (FreeDNS):
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anthonywebuser Joined: 6/23/2017 |
URL forwarding without giving up an IP address? Thursday, October 31, 2019 10:54 PM
You can enter a random IP as it will get overwritten by the web redirect entry.
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aDynuUser Joined: 9/14/2017 |
URL forwarding without giving up an IP address? Friday, November 1, 2019 12:07 PM
Ahh, i didn't know. Perhaps it would've been better if this was mentioned somewhere :)Thanks for the quick heads up, anthonywebuser!
(ps: do free DynU users also have a 5 hosts limit?) |
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