I bought a domain name on godaddy.com let's call it www.website.com, but my server has a dynamic ip, how do I resolve this issue?
What I've tried:
get a dns account at dyndns.com let's call it dns.dyndns.com, so I set up godaddy to forward the domain to dns.dyndns.com.
problem: When the user goes to www.website.com, they see dns.dyndns.com in the url bar. Bad
So then I set up the forwarding on godaddy to forward with domain masking, but then the problem is now that users can't even see url paths/get queries/ or hash marks anymore!
`www.website.com/folder/search?id=4#ajax=4` becomes just
www.website.com in the url bar. bad!
What do I do?
EDIT:
Ok so, say my godaddy domain name is mysite.com and I have a dyndns account called redirect.com. I set up a cname record on www.mysite.com to go to blah.redirect.com. This works, but when I go to www.mysite.com it shows me the contents of www.redirect.com instead of the contents on blah.redirect.com, what gives?
Best Answer
My suggestion would be to move your name servers to DynDNS, set up your DNS records there, and install one of their dynamic DNS clients somewhere on your local network to keep your dynamic ip address in sync with your DNS records. I use DynDNS and host 6 web sites at home using their dynamic DNS client.