Thanks for alerting us to this app!

I looked at their web page http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~cmu/DynamIPsetup.htm#requirements and it has some very detailed technical information about how all this works. I'm very curious about how DynamIP will post your dynamic address to web pages and then automatically upload those files via FTP. I'd be interested in hearing from Forrest, from the users of this software and from the authors about this feature. What are some examples of how this is being used? I'd suggest you look at their web page before downloading this as there are quite a few caveats and requirements that you need to know about before using this app. As far as getting your time from your isp, don't. Get it from the Naval Observatory. I wouldn't trust some geek at your neighborhood isp with having the right system time. Would you? Of course, if I'm wrong and DynamIP does get your time from a more reputable source than your local isp, then I stand corrected. If you want the time, get Netdate v2.02 for Win32 by Steeve McCauley. It's free and it snatches the time from the Naval Observatory. http://www.cam.org/~oneguy for Netdate.

Look at http://www.missouri.edu/~c640902 for an example of what happens. It only uploads the html file that you want updated. It reads the HTML file and replaces a set of dummy variables you specify. In my case, it replaces NOT.ON.LINE.NOW (in both places) with my IP address. The last updated date is a dummy variable replaced each time DynamIP uploads. The time updater defaults to a naval server, I think.

Greetings all! I've been tinkering around with DynamIP too. I had all the bugs worked out untill I relocated the directory and somehow lost some of those *.ocx files. Oh well, I should be able to fix that up tomorrow. Terry; You ask how this is being put to use? I use it for CoolTalk so that I don't have to be logged into a server. That way it kinda limits the number of folks calling me. Too many people call and I can always change the URL and give it out to family and such. One feature that I wish it had is a feature I found in a similar program called "OnLine" version 1.9. It does the same basic thing as DynamIP does but has nothing near the power of DynamIP. The feature it has is a thing called "NetNote". I think it is like a small builtin html/www server. Someone comes to my online page, types a message into a form field, submits, and they get a new web page loaded. I get the message and a spot to reply. My reply is sent the the new web page that the sender received when he/she submited the form. Very neat! I like it so much because my daughter is sometimes very limited on what she can do on the internet by her step-father. When she is allowed to use the browser only, NetNote gives us the ability to still chat somewhat. Does anyone know if there is an app that I can set up to do the same thing with DynamIP? If I didn't make myself very clear about the NetNote, you can check it out at http://www.4dcomm.com/~rrhubott/rhusoft.html My online page is located at url http://www.gnt.net/~parsonsj/online.html Keep in mind that if I haven't fixed my DynamIP yet then you'll see the screen from OnLine v1.9. Take care all. JP

I thought you might be interested in this information. btw - I'm just another user of this product. ***Quote*** I'm very curious about how DynamIP will post your dynamic address to web pages and then automatically upload those files via FTP. I'd be interested in hearing from Forrest, from the users of this software and from the authors about this feature. What are some examples of how this is being used? ***End Quote*** You have a template file that DynamIP reads and replaces variables with current info such as time and IP address. It then uploads the output file to your web site. You can see an example on my personal webpage at http://edge.edge.net/~billmeek/ . Click on the link "Is Bill Online???". (Note - The first time you load my webpage, it might take awhile. It'll install the MS ActiveX PowerPoint viewer for 95 if not already installed) ***Quote*** As far as getting your time from your isp, don't. Get it from the Naval Observatory ***End Quote*** You specify where DynamIP is to get the correct time from in the configuration settings. The default is timeserver "tick.usno.navy.mil". Bill billmeek@edge.net http://edge.edge.net/~billmeek/

I work for an Internet Service provider, and many times I will leave my computer logged in from home with both my FrontPage web server and my ftp server running. I am constantly getting and sending files from my office to my home system, and this app makes it far easier to check what my IP address is. It's not unknown for my system to drop it's connection, (we have a 1 hour no activity time-out), and when the redialer kicks in my IP address will change. This way I don't have to go fishing through our connect logs to see what my number is. I just check out my web page kept on our main server. I kave placed a link from my home page to the DynamicIP default page, (Which I have modified), and from there you can visit my little web server. If anyone has any interest, my URL is http://www.empire.net/~traveler

Howdie All, I'm running DynamIP 2.4 and have had some problems with one thing. First of all, I've got two ports on this machine. One is a dial-up connection to my ISP via 28.8k USR Sportster. This port has the dynamically assigned IP Number that I want to have posted remotely. I also have a second port connected to our local LAN via 10mb Ethernet. This port has a static internal IP Number of 200.0.0.11 My WebSite & FtpServer are running on a remote Local LAN machine at 200.0.0.12 I am running WinGate on my local computer, so when users connect to my IP Address, they come in through the modem connected to my machine and get transferred over the Ethernet to my secondary "Server Machine". Well, I update two (2) remote web pages with DynamIP. One is at GeoCities and this one is first in succession. This is the page that users connect to from the Internet. I also update a simple .TXT file on the remote server at 200.0.0.12 on my local lan. This text file gets used to display my current IP Number to people that are viewing my WebSite. Well, if I leave DynamIP up and running for an extended period of time, I seems to revert to the IP Number of the Ethernet port on my pc. Every time this has happened, I've been away from my computer for more than an hour or so... I have no idea why this happens, but when I get home, I see the remote page at GeoCities showing my current IP Number as 200.0.0.11, which of course nobody will ever be able to get to... :) What I'm suspecting is happening, is that GeoCities is down for a few moments. At that time, DynamIP is "autosensing"... And from what I can tell, DynamIP gets the current IP Number by pinging the remote host, then pulling the IP Number out of the response packet from the ping. Well, when DynamIP can't get to GeoCities, it tries to ping the second remote host and promptly gets a response from my "secondary server" on the local LAN. This response packet comes back via the Ethernet port with the IP of 2 0.0.0.11 So, up until this time, I've left DynamIP in my DUN AutoStart (via Dunce), and let it run the first time, then I just close it down. It's still ran by Dunce if I get disconnected and it re-connects automatically. But if I'm not arround, after about 4-5 hours or so, it re-posts my IP to GeoCities as 200.0.0.11 I would realy like to just leave the thing up and running full time, but have not figured out a solution to this. If anyone else has had a similar problem, please let me know if you found a way arround it... Thanks! -Todd W. Powers N8WEI n8wei@ix.netcom.com http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Park/4761

Hey, can anybody help me with this stupid DynamIP It always gives me errors!

Ok, when I am having a problem with DynamicIP v2.6. When I run the program, and then click on the menu Setup, when I try to do any of those options, it comes up with "Runtime error 3107, error loading from file" Please help me out!

I emailed the nice Finnish folks at Dynamip about your queries. Hopefully, help is on the way!

Kory Grandy's problem has been solved. Please check out the detailed information available on the DynamIP trouble-shooting page. Chris (I'm Swiss BTW; Hellu is Finnish ;-) )

DynamIP... is FAR-OUT!! easy setup (follow instrution, let the template do the work) THANX DynamIP!!!!!! Alfredo PAL

DynamIP... is FAR-OUT!! easy setup (follow instruction, let the template do the work) THANX DynamIP!!!!!! Alfredo PAL

DynamIP... is FAR-OUT!! easy setup (follow instruction, let the template do the work) THANX DynamIP!!!!!! Alfredo PAL

Help! I attempted to install DynamIP but without success. I dl MS control tools beta2 and dl DynamIP v2.6 as well as v2.7. According to the programmer web page the controls package should come w/the *.ocx files but upon executing dynamip it kept requesting these files. I also dl several of them ftpct.ocx, richtx32.ocx, winsck.ocx, etc and used the regsvr32.exe but received an error when doing so. Can anyone help me?

Harmony, MS ICP beta2 might have trouble installing some of the controls (*.ocx files) if they are in use. It's definitely a good idea to shut down all the other programs before you install the MS ICP. If the normal installation process is not able to register the controls and you can't register them manually either, then you might have to delete the appropriate registry entries, reboot Windows, delete the *.ocx files, and finally try to reinstall the ICP again. Problems with the ICP beta 2 are really out of my control, but most people get it to work after some trying ;-) If DynamIP reports other missing files, then you can get them from http://www.stanford.edu/~cmu/DynamIPsetup.htm#installationtrouble. Chris

Please explain exactly how you"delete the appropriate registry entries"; this may be cryptic to a new user. I'm glad you have a missing files area!

I'm using DynamIP to update my web page and especially like the tutorial that allowed me to set up my web page to automagically allow NetMeeting calls. Using Dunce and RoboDun, my total suite of 'net clients is loaded with a single click while the interaction of DynamIP and Dunce allows me to shut everything down when I close DynamIP. This is a powerful set of utilities! Give me a call at http://www.infocom.net/~ordred

According to the Help facility, "As soon as you start DynamIP it figures out whether you're connected to the Internet or not." As soon as I start it, it just sits there with "Disconnected" showing in the lower left hand corner. I've double checked that the Internet Control Pack is installed, and all DynamIP files are in place. Earlier errors indicated I had to download richtx32.ocx, and then comctl32.ocx, and run regsrv32 to get them in the registry; but now DynamIP just sits there dumbly with no error in ication. Any chance the problem is that I've installed DynamIP on my D: drive, while \windows\system is on C:? I wouldn't expect this to be a problem, and have successfully installed quite a few apps this way. Note that I'm a career software professional who even remembers when this was the arpanet, but this one has me baffled. I'm obviously connected, else how did I post this? Has anyone else seen/solved this one?

John, The "Disconnected" in the lower left corner (which is called left pane of the status bar) means only that currently none of the DynamIP services has established a connection. If you're connected then DynamIP shows your current IP address in the top left field (just to the left of the button "Refresh IP". For this to happen you must define at least 1 active connection handle or 1 active POP mail acccount. If you're not connected DynamIP will say so in the 2nd field from the top just below the IP field (which should say 127.0.0.1). Hope that helps, Chris

Chris, In regard to your message to Harmony about deleting registry entries. Can you suggest where to look for these entries? I'm having trouble registering the .ocx's and don't have enough knowledge to tackle the registry on my own. Please, any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Chris Lawson

Chris, Editing the registry is only for "advanced" users. Before you attempt playing around with the registry you should definitely make a BACKUP of your registry files (you might have to reinstall Windows if things go badly wrong!!!). You might also want to read a bit about the registry at http://www.creativelement.com/win95ann/registry.html. I might also add some more info to the DynamIP site. Chris

Hey Chris! Nice product, but.... It goes as follows: 1. I lose connection to my ISP. 2. DynamIP turns purple, displays localhost address 127.0.0.1 3. RAS reials and gets connected. 4. DynamIP reports "Run Time Error 1048 Address in use" Have to click o.k. then restart it. This error just kills the automatic reconnect functionaly. Happens every time without exception. Any ideas? Platform NT4.0 WKS, everything else works fine. Csaba

This application is probably nice but I really couldn't get around the installation : could never register these damn ocx files, and I tried a lot of things (I have been playing in computers for a long time and I know what I am doing) All that it did finally is that there is a missing dll in my system windows dir required at the startup of w95 : msvcirt.dll I cannot find it on my desktop PC, where by luck I didnt try to install this software, anyone could send it to me as an attachment ? thanx in advance molinf@crhsc.umontreal.ca

Csaba: Error 1048 (address in use) is currently unresolved. It should affect people with multiple IP addresses on their system (e.g. static LAN plus a dynamic dial-up). Frank: It is not quite obvious from your post which part of the installation is causing problems. A precondition for running DynamIP is that you can successfully install Microsoft's ICP beta 2. There are unfortunately quite a few issues with that installation pack, and one thing you could try is to delete all registry entries refering to controls that come with the ICP (check out the DynamIP home page for more info. Once you've installed these controls there are only 4 more controls left that shouldn't be too hard to install manually. My apologies for causing grief on your side, but I doubt that installing DynamIP deleted any files on your machine. Happy Thanksgiving to all, Chris

Happy Thanksgiving to you too, Chis and thanks for participating in our conference. We encourage your continued presence here.

I need help If you've read the info regarding DynamIP's future you know that I will be moving away from the MS ICP. Right now I'm looking for a file called "WININET.BAS" with declarations for all the functions/constants available in "WININET.DLL". I do have the C++ header file "WININET.H", but manual conversion seems painful. Please drop me a line if you have the file or know where I can get it from. Thanks in advance, Chris

I appreciate the freeware, that you're not a professional DynamIP programmer, and that you're continuing to search for WININET.BAS, Chris, but I believe that amongst the bigger fans of your fine app, we could get a groundswell to collect the $250 to get you a nice, shiny new toolbox for xmas (or the spring, when you need it!). We're not rich, but it'd be worth it. Anyone else out there care to jump on this contingency bandwagon? -Hankus

Thanks to all of you who e-mailed me hints/tips for WinINet.dll. I have the most important stuff converted and it's working. Still some work to do in order to get the TCP/IP stuff working. Chris PS: Hankus, money is not the issue. However, I'm strongly opposed to the strategy of giving away beta controls (MS!!!) and then gauge those who built on them (NetManage). I don't blame anybody but myself for using the controls in the first place, but I'm surely not throwing any money at either company and reward them for this approach. We've got time until March and things are moving along on my side...

Dynamip is to me a very usefull application. One of it�s attractions was its use of ICP, as i'm doing programming in VB4 + ICP myself. I quite agree with you Chris, regarding your feelings toward MS/NetManage, although I am at the moment considering paying up the 250$ ! I think this Beta looked promising.... I will be very interested in your experiences with WinINet.dll, and would appreciate any hints or links, if you find that this package covers your needs. I think your work with DynamIP, and your web support pages, is great and I look forward to following the progress. It is though, a minor concern that i haven't been able to find your site (www-leland.stanford.edu) for several days ?! Preben

First off, a thank you to Chris for writing this fine piece of software. Now for the punch line. The one and only problem that I've got with DymanIP is the memory foot-print that it has on the system. One day I was curious as to how much memory each of the programs that I run take up. So I started up Norton System Information (from the Norton Utilities) and saw that DynamIP was the largest user of memory on my system, taking up a whopping 6+ megs of memory. Just to clarify, I love what this program does, but I was just wondering Chris, if there was any way you could trim down the amount of system resources that this "utility" program uses. Yes, it does a lot, but say a person (such as myself) is running their system with 32 megs of ram. DynamIP thens takes up close to 20% of the physical memory just to monitor email and update their web page with the dynamic IP address. Personally I hate on-line chat, so that's pretty useless to me, but the other stuff is really nice, especially the system tray icon. Sorry for the rant, but since I don't know what's in your head, I have no idea if you even know about this problem. I realize fully that this is a spare time project and that you receive no compensation for doing it, but if you could figure out this memory foot-print problem, then you surely will gain some amazing experience in programming in doing it. Later, Jim

I have installed DynamIP on my computer with no problems. My father and I are using it mainly to be able to find each other when we are both online. My father is having a strange problem where his IP number is listed for 2 min then the box below turns purple and the default IP comes up for 30 sec. After which the correct IP comes back up by itself. The problem with this is that while the box remains purple he can type in the chat box but when he tries to send it will not. After the correct IP comes back u he is then able to hit return and send the waiting text. He is not using any of the Online Offline FTP or HTTP functions and has that disabled. He only uses the Mail POP function and Chat. Any suggestions out there. We both really like the program, but would like to resolve this one problem. Thanks for and help Steven nfn00805@gator.naples.net

I would like to echo the problem that Steven Whitney expressed regarding the Rapid Onset of the Purple Plague. However, in my case our ISP has lost/misplaced/disabled FTP altogether. The DynamIP log files appear to indicate that FTP is tried and fails then a connection to my POP server occurs. Since the IP address is resolved frequently the purple box appears to be related to the check of my POP server and loss of FTP. Disabling FTP kills the Autosense process altogether. Pointing to some other FTP site fails the autosense test also. Given that not everyone has an ISP-provided FTP (ie, web page hosting elsewhere) this appears to be a problem. Is there another way to establish a user's IP address without requiring FTP via the local ISP? Well, obviously there is, but how does that affect the rest of DynamIP? Thanks for the ability to comment (and your willingness to listen) on your excellent, personal gone public, software, Chris! Billy (aka SergeAhead aka EvenKeel aka Nancy aka Billy :)

Billy Colemans comments about the purple box in responce to my message, reminded me that the reason my dad has the online, offline, ftp functions disabled is because his account is purely POP. He has no shell account to which he can upload any files. I do not have the problem and do have a shell account which I have set up. If I remember correctly when I first started using DynamIP I did have the problem and it cured itself when I got the FTP Online and Offline straightened out. Thanks again for any help Steven

First off, a thank you to Chris for writing this fine piece of software. I am running DynamIP on a Windows 95 machine along with a FTP server and WinGate. I want all my local users to be able to connect to internet FTP sites through WinGate so I have set up WinGate to listen on Port 21. I have set up my FTP server to listen on Port 22. The question I have is there a way to get DynamIP to reflect this port in the FTP address that it posts to my homepage. Thanks in advance... //Steve//

Hi all, In this message I'm gonna try to address a bunch of questions/concerns: -------pbb-------- I'm confident that I can do without paying $250 to NetManage. I've made good progress with my own controls and the basic functionality of DynamIP is working without loading any controls of the ICP. I think I'll be able to release a beta version sometime in February that will do w/out ICP alltogether... I'm not in charge of the Stanford WWW server and since they keep my pages free of charge I'm not really in a position to complain about you not being able my pages. Things are usually a bit slow early in the morning (PST) when they do their updates, but other than that I've found them to be quite reliable... ---------pantera------------ I'm aware of the memory hogging issue. Let me blame it on the ICP (things are better in my current alpha version that does w/out the ICP)... ---------swhitney---/----SergeAhead-------- DynamIP keeps a live connection to either an FTP server or a POP server. That was the only "easy" way to figure out whether a connection exists or not using ICP. This will (hopefully) be changed with my own controls, but for the time being you want to connect to a server that doesn't disconnect you too quickly after you established a connection (POP servers usually kick you within a few minutes, FTP servers let you hang around for quite a while). DynamIP "turns purple" when the connection is lost until a ew one is established. The "Purple Plague" (I like the name ;-) ) is on my "to do" list, but solving the "ICP desease" is currently more urgent. Thanks for your understanding. -------SteveMarshall-------- Instead of using the built-in functionality to generate a FTP (or HTTP)-link on your web page you can add the link in your template and put the IP dummy as a place holder for your IP address. E.g. you could have the following in your template (look at the source of this page to see the html code...): http://NOT.ON.LINE.NOW/AnyPage.htm When DynamIP updates the template it will also replace the string "NOT.ON.LINE.NOW" with your current IP address and the link will work. The FTP link works pretty much the same. Please refer to any good HTML reference for further details... All right. I wish you all Happy Holidays, Chris

I'm using dynamic option to my PPP connnection to the ISP. Each time I connect, I'm given different IP. So - after disconnecting from my ISP - I always have to start a new session of IE in order for it to be able to find addresses... Will installing DynamIP help me with this problem?

Peter, DynamIP will NOT solve your particular problem. Chris

Hello I am having the same problem with the Internet Control Pack not being able to register the .ocx files. This is apparently a common problem with the Beta2 of this software because it was the first item listed in the FAQ I found for the software. Apparently the registry update information in Beta2 is for a different format version of the windows registry than some of us have. There was a .reg file update but it was for WinNT and doesn't work on my windows95. So what I am asking is for anyone who has the Beta2 installed in windows 95 to export the "license" part of their registry that has the info for the .ocx files in it and email to me so I can import it into mine. From what I read this should fix it.. I will post in here and let everyone know if it works or not. My email address is jbeets@intellisys.net Thanks Jon Beets jbeets@intellisys.net

Hello I am having the same problem with the Internet Control Pack not being able to register the .ocx files. This is apparently a common problem with the Beta2 of this software because it was the first item listed in the FAQ I found for the software. Apparently the registry update information in Beta2 is for a different format version of the windows registry than some of us have. There was a .reg file update but it was for WinNT and doesn't work on my windows95. So what I am asking is for anyone who has the Beta2 installed in windows 95 to export the "license" part of their registry that has the info for the .ocx files in it and email to me so I can import it into mine. From what I read this should fix it.. I will post in here and let everyone know if it works or not. My email address is jbeets@intellisys.net Thanks Jon Beets jbeets@intellisys.net

I'm using DynamIP v2.7a and I keep getting a run-time error '91' when trying to go online. It logs into my ftp server just fine, but then it comes up with the error and says "object variable or With block variable not set," thus crashing the program. Can anyone help?

I'm using DynamIP v2.7a and I keep getting a run-time error '91' when trying to go online. It logs into my ftp server just fine, but then it comes up with the error and says "object variable or With block variable not set," thus crashing the program. Can anyone help?

Try the all new DynamIP v3.0 beta 1!!! - download it from http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~cmu/DynamIPdownload.htm - read setup/configuration info and get the required ActiveX controls and DLLs from http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~cmu/DynamIPsetup.htm#requirements Chris

Thanks Chris. Would you give us a summary of the practical applications of how folks are using this app. I'm still a bit in the fog about what it does. Some real case studies would be useful.

I have installed v3.0 beta 1 and am having the following problems. I get a Runtime error 5 invalid procedure call or argument The program continues to load after that error but then I get another error Runtime error 430 class doesn't support OLE Automation After the 2nd error the program exits. Any suggestions out there. I tried to delete my ini file and re-enter all my setup info but the same errors occured. Thanks for any help. Steven

I am having a bit of a problem running DynamIP I get a "Run-time error '13': Type mismatch"

Paul, I don't really have time to write a case study. However, I'm happy to compile one if people e-mail me their stories. Also, I wanted to thank everybody who e-mailed me bug reports for v3.0 beta 1. I just uploaded beta 2. You can get it from http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~cmu/DynamIPdownload.htm. The bad news is that my motherboard blew up today and it will take a while until I'm back up and running again (Manhattan, as it turns out, is a true wasteland if it comes to computers; it's impossible to find the right stuff...). Please don't overreact if I'm offline for a while ;-) Cheers, Chris

NO problem. Sorry to hear about this. Stay in touch as best as you can.

I love DynamIP! Well I did until v3. I got beta2 installed and everything works (with the old .ini file) until I try to see what's new and dare to click on Setup followed by ANYTHING. CRASH! Included is a note about "appropriate licence.../Error 429". I did EVERYTHING that the trouble-shooting page recommends. After deregistering the 5 controls the only references to the controls was one each under "shared DLLs". I deleted the registry keys (Windows still works! and I know how to put these keys back). I reregistered the controls. Result? Nochange! Help!

I really have gotten a lot of use out of Dynamip and enjoy using it. Unfortunatly I have exactly the same problem with v3b2 as Ed Moskal (error 429). I tried the recommended fixes with no sucess. Is it possible that the error message is correct and that I don't have an appropriate license? I don't own visual basic. Help!

The only good news from the last message is that I am not alone.

I'm having the same problem. I also had problems with the tcp ocx in the full zip file, but then downloaded the tcp ocx by istelf zip and noticed it had a different file date. It worked. Can't look at settings however. -- jacklail

Try DynamIP v3.0 beta 3. It comes with an installation program that should solve most of the above mentioned problems... Chris

Thank you Chris. Beta 3 seems to have solved all my problems. Now to look at the WebChat feature. Thanks again. I love this little program!

Can folks share some examples of how they use this program?

After much juggling, hair pulling and finally installing the last beta... IT WORKS!!!! Thankx Cris, for putting so much effort into to this program... Now I can use it as a pager off of my web boards...Thankx again -renzo

Get DynamIP v3.0 beta 4 (solves a whole bunch of problems). It's available here. PS: My apologies for another huge download, but there was another small problem in cmuTCP.ocx

Thanks Christoph. I'm still hoping we get some good examples of how users are utilizing this program. Some real world examples would be great!

one can be found here, also if ya dig around in the site you'll find it in place on a couple of weboards...

oops pasted in the wrong link, sorry try this one instead...

I've just gotten Ver. 3.0b4 installed. I'm pretty sure I've done it right. After startup (the app) it uploads and then quits. Any ideas? I've gone over the troble shooting tips more than once. I didn't see the solution there. I would really like to get this going so as to porvide access to my FTP and WEB server at home.

What is the url going to be of your webserver? Or root ip? I added a dynamip address to our list of users last night. Any more dynamip of participants here? Any other folks want to be listed?

I use DynamIP to post MY WEB and FTP server IP address on to my home page at my ISP site. From there you can click on the link to my home computer. My local URL is phill2.bills.net. (1.2.3.1) This is only good for my local network, but any others can access from the internet using my dynamic address. It really does work. Check it out. I got Ver 3.0b4 to work, for the most part. It won't run with the IPchat or HTTP scan.

I'll check out http://www.pacifier.com/~bchurch

DynamIP: 5 stars!, 5 Cows!, 2 thumbs up!

I've installed V3.0B5 and everything appears to work fine after moving a few of the ocx files to system directory and registering them. My question is concerning the interface. It does not match that of the one displayed on your web page. Everything to the right of the refresh IP button does not exist. The alignment of the numbers for the mail portion are half way covering the envelope button and the red or green line under each connection are probably only one pixel thick. I am not sure if this is the wa it is supposed to be or if it supposed to look like what is on your web page. By the way it was the same way when i had beta 4. Any suggestions?

I just installed V3b6 and this is the best thing since sliced bread! I really like the WebChat. Very Cool. I agree 2 thumbs up, 5 stars, 5 cows, 5 whatever's...The best.

Using 3.0b6. Nice. How do I get it to update my webpage (or does it) excpet when I log on and log off? is it supposed to update my IP while on? Bob

Please do not bother with old betas. Get DynamIP v3.0 beta 8 from here. This latest beta fixes lots of problems, especially under NT. Also, it would be nice if somebody with a static IP address could convince Stroud to change his mind: he still thinks that DynamIP is mainly of use to those with a dynamic IP address. Good counter-examples are WEBchat, IPchat, POP check, etc. which all work just fine on a LAN... Thanks to all of you who contributed to the 5 "golden" cows from TUCOWS. To those of you who can't get DynamIP to upload their web page anymore, please read the docu about the new DEL switch (you can choose between overwriting and delete/put). For some people, either setting will work - others must choose one or the other (it all depends on the FTP server you're uploading to...) Chris PS: How do people like the new DynamIP web site? Appealing, useful, garbage, or what?

Chris, Thumbs up on the "new and improved" web site! The kids all think that the music Dad 'listens' to is strange though ! Personally, I find it strangely appealing ... Regarding the use of DynamIP with a static IP ... My wife and I have used DynamIP from a very early edition to communicate between the office (static IP, EvenKeel) and the house (dynamip ... uh, dynamic IP :). I found that it saved a lot on the local long distance bill for those "Hey, would you mind picking up ..." type of calls. Besides, with homeschooling the two oldest and the three younger ones running about, sometimes she just needed some quick support. I also liked the ability to use the web page to access my home computer to retrieve files that I needed for work (or send files home for working late at night :) With the changes in the 3.0 versions, I can now take advantage of the email checking and time sync at the ofice without having yet another app to run. In fact, if I were able to track down the RT6 failure when I fail to respond to the WebChat, I would use the auto-online feature to enable chat for non-DynamIP users. Just a few comments ... I _really_ do admire your efforts at growing this program and yet still maintaining it as freeware. I have considered recommending it to my ISP as software to include in their New User Package. Billy

DynamIP doesn't seem to obtain an IP when I go online. It creates and uploads the html file to my www site, but the IP address is blank. The DynamIP window displays nothing where there should be an IP address. To the right of that field is a bit "D" with green background. Selecting "Refresh IP" does nothing. Other applications seem to be able to get my IP address (in particular, when I go to My Computer, select the properties for my connection icon, then look at Server Type and TCP/IP settings, it sh ws my current IP address. I have a dynamic IP address (changes with every connection). When I look at the log file, there is a line that says: 2/15/97/11:39:02 AM: IP : (IP address is blank here, too). Is there a known problem in getting an IP address with some servers? I have a LARGE ISP (University of Minnesota). Would this make a difference? I once copied a program from a book which was supposed to obtain my IP address, but it had the same problem -- couldn't get it. And yet, I know there are applications which can get it just fine. So, could there be some little-known manner in which an IP address might be obtained? Thanks

First a "thank you" to Billy. I'm glad you think DynamIP's getting better. Greg has hit on an issue that needs to be resolved on my side: currently, DynamIP can only determine your IP address if you establish a PPP connection. There's nothing broken, it's been designed like this. However, I do understand that some people use other protocols, and I'm working on a solution. Chris

FTP ERROR Template not found. What is this? Template names and locations are as they should be. Any hints?

After being away for a bit, I've discovered that beta 3 has gone to beta 8. Wow, better than ever! For those who want to know how I use this: My family are all over the place but most have access to the Web. Web chat makes a nice, simple way to say hello. I've retired as a professor but still teach occasionally. Since I'm not regularly in an office but students may still want to discuss something, they can simply see if I'm on line and then immediately get in touch using my IP address and some kind of communication software ( such as DynamIP). This is getting too long! Thanks again Chris.

What's your url there?

Great that even a "Prof" is using DynamIP . Thx for the kudos! Anyway, just wanted to let everybody know that DynamIP v3.0 beta 9 is out. This latest beta should fix most of the problems that were reported with beta 8. Furthermore, I enabled the last batch of options I've been working on: - DialOnDemand for user selectable dial-up connection - Hide the annoying "Connected to" window - template for WEBchat (for those who don't like yellow...) - enhanced algorithm to determine IP address (should now also work with a bunch of newer devices like cable modem, etc.) - lots of little things If you have at least beta 3 installed you can download the upgrade to beta 9 which is only 135KB. Please follow the installation instructions available at http://DynamIP.home.ml.org/DynamIPinstallation.htm Enjoy, Chris

Well, I just downloaded the newest version and I'll be looking at this from the user's viewpoint. The three part install went fairly well. What solutions are folks using to stay connected. What is the reocmmended solution Christoph for staying connected. I've been using RAS+95 which is supposed to run on NT. Are you providing NT and RAS+95 support? Are these compatible apps or do you plan to provide this functionality within Dynamip?

First, thanks for writing DynamIP. On top of that, making it FREEWARE! I am using v3.0b9. Install without a hitch. However, istead of FTP to my webpage, my web page is mapped network drive (F:). I setup the "Local File" to to be the mapped drive directory and left the FTP remote host as default. This way it will write the html file to the web server. However, now I always get an FTP Error when it tries to "upload" the html file. Although this is only a cosmetic problem, I still get satisfactory results, is there a way around this? -- Max S

DynamIP v3.0 beta10 is out. Get it from here. This is the first beta that reveals the new user interface. Some other new features are: - enhanced DialOnDemand (should answer Paul's question) - Toolbar - built in support for (re)dial - several bug fixes Chris PS: The final release of DynamIP will allow you to update the local file only (which should solve Max S's problem).

How about NT 4.0 compatibility?

I'm on NT4 ;-) (the problem is NT3.51 where some functionality is not available [e.g. Tray]) Chris

Good to hear it. Now, since my RAS+95 expired to figure out how to get it to dial up and keep me connected to my isp. Any shortcut tips on how to do this.

Hello, Just a note to say that all appears to be well in the refresh department now. I didn't really change anything - it just started working! What I think happened is, you know how when you're testing something and you have run through umpteen different configurations, all to no avail, then you reboot a few times and come back to it fresh, and it works? I think that's what happened. If I had started out with the configuration settings I finally settled on, it probably would have worked all along. I just had several stops along the way before I finally got there. Thanks for a fine program, and thanks for your attentiveness in trying to solve my phantom problem! Cheers! Ken Wiebe

Well, I just posted a followup (#83) to my post about refresh not working, but I don't see my original post. #83 doesn't make much sense without the original post, FYI. Anyway, Cheers!

Hi all, I've had some connectivity problems myself. If you sent me e-mail between 25-March-97 and 29-March-97 and haven't received a reply, please resend your message to cmu@bigfoot.com. DynamIP v3.0 beta 11 is out. Please READ the Readme.txt file BEFORE you install it (it will upgrade lots of controls on your computer...). You can get it from http://DynamIP.home.ml.org/DynamIPdownload.htm. The DynamIP home page is at http://DynamIP.home.ml.org/. As I'll be moving back to California between 2 April and 7 April I won't reading my mail during that time (and therefore you won't get any replies either). Happy Easter to everybody, Chris

On Pent Pro 200 dual proc; winnt4.0ws 1381 sp2, v30b11 seems to be working. I did the install to a machine that had never had DynamIP installed. I copied all local files (that I had) which were in the file "Setup.lst" to a new folder on another drive. It turned out that everything still works, so the effort has to be considered as cost of insurance. If I understood the Spring/yapp instructions correctly, this link should work for anyone who would like to see what it looks like or to test their IPchat feature. Check to see if I'm on-line Thanks, Chris, for a useful app. --Pete

Yet another use for DynamIP --------------------------- Besides using DynamIP v3.0b11 to post my IP address to a WebPage for Internet Phone purposes, I am also using it in conjunction with Craig Lauer's NotifyMail program (http://www.notifymail.com) to get instantaneous e-mail notifications. This eliminates the need for programs like Eudora, Pegasus, MS Exchange, etc. to constantly poll the POP3 servers for new mail. One of the requirements of NotifyMail was a "full (shell) account on a UNIX or VMS machine running a POP server AND a static IP address." Well with DynamIP, you no longer need to have a static IP address because you can now just post your address when you first connect and remove your address when you disconnect from DUN/RAS. After a few hours of tinkering, everything works flawlessly now! You can e-mail me if you have any problems setting this up. Suggestions ----------- Chris, the only complaint that I have with the product is its memory usage (Norton SI reports 6.23MB). Here are some suggestions that I have thought up that might help improve the product: - since people are not always configuring the application when they run it, you can probably improve on it's memory usage by breaking DynamIP into two applications: DynamIP and a Setup program. - DynamIP would be the exact same as it is now but the Read Configuration & Save Configuration menu items and the Setup menu would be removed. - the Setup program would then consist of a tabbed Dialog-based application that reads/writes the setup information to/from the INI file. - by doing this, you can eliminate the need for the Tab control (and depending on where you used it, the Rich Text Edit control too) to be loaded into memory. - this alone should result in a savings of about 350 - 400K. - the number of elements on your tab control may also be wasting a lot of memory. If you have separate labels, text edit boxes, check boxes, combo boxes, etc. for each tab then this amounts to a huge waste of memory and resources. You can change this by just having say 20 controls that you would reposition into their appropriate locations when a tab is selected. Of course this is quite difficult to implement and it's complexity might not be worth the hassle. (Please ignore this comment if you are alrea y doing this.) OR as an alternative, might I suggest changing the interface into one that is similar to that of Explorer's or RegEdit's (i.e. a Tree Control and a List View control with a splitter bar in the middle). So, as the user adds more Launch definitions, Uploader information, etc... you can just add more tree branches to your display. Chris, if you have any questions/comments or need clarifications on any of these suggestions, please feel free to contact me at: yu108694@yorku.ca Keep up the good work! -- Hiep

A quick note to those of you who've been playing around with IE4. When you install IE4 a new version of "wininet.dll" gets installed (v4.71.0544.1). This new version changes the behavior of the FTP engine somewhat (after login a SYST command is issued). If your FTP server doesn't support the SYST command then you might not be able to upload any files anymore because the FTP control aborts if the server doesn't support SYST. DynamIP uses high level commands, i.e. there's no way for me to get around this pr blem (I simply hope that the MS folks are finally getting their act together). Other than that, DynamIP should work fine w/ IE4 (at least it does on my machine). Chris

DynamIP v3.0 RC1 released. Get DynamIPv3RC1.zip now! Chris

What's hot in the new release, Christoph?

..hmmm... fewer bugs? RC1 features an improved dialer/launcher (you can now dial directly from the DynamIP menu up to 3 of your dial-up connections), KeepAlive (generates a bit of traffic every 2 minutes so that your ISP doesn't disconnect you). Chris

What if your isp asks that you disconnect every 4 hours or some interval and then reconnect. Do you handle this?

DynamIP can handle this with the "Dial with Timer" functionality. You can specify the times (time intervals) you want DynamIP to establish a connection. It's all explained here. My advice would be, however, to sign up with a real ISP and ditch that "LEGO" company... Chris

How does DYNAMIP handle dedicated connections. What advice do you have for folks wanting to connect a subnet of NT and Windows 95 machines to an isp and have each machine maintain an ip address with webservers with virtual webservers?

I have only one problem with dynamIP. when i try and change the background or forground colors it allways resets to the default???????? I haven't yet tinkered with the reg file cause that too much trouble fer such alittle thing. any suggestions??

I setup a *.lnk file to start Netscape Mail. That Link file contains the command line: C:\blah blah blah\netscape.exe -mail In DynamIP (RC1) Mail setup, when using the Browse button to point to this link file, it reads the above command line contained in the link file directly into the field once the browse window closes. (It's not supposed to do this, is it?) But it doesn't pull in the command line parameter (i.e, -mail ). If I ignore the Browse button and manually type in the path to the *.lnk file it stays. C:\blah blah blah\NSMail.lnk Works fine now. Is the Browse thing a bug or a feature? ;-) Regards, Marty

I setup a *.lnk file to start Netscape Mail. That Link file contains the command line: C:\blah blah blah\netscape.exe -mail In DynamIP (RC1) Mail setup, when using the Browse button to point to this link file, it reads the above command line contained in the link file directly into the field once the browse window closes. (It's not supposed to do this, is it?) But it doesn't pull in the command line parameter (i.e, -mail ). If I ignore the Browse button and manually type in the path to the *.lnk file it stays. C:\blah blah blah\NSMail.lnk Works fine now. Is the Browse thing a bug or a feature? ;-) Regards, Marty

I apoligize for the double post. Don't know how I did that.

Another thing I've been meaning to address... Terminal Envelope Roll. When the scheduled POP mail checker kicks in... it doesn't always connect and the envelope icon rolls for what seems like forever. If I force DynamIP to scan for mail while it's in this state, it's usually successful. Sometimes it takes 2 or 3 clicks to get it to respond. Any ideas? Regards, Marty

some comments to messages above #94 Dedicated connections (w/ static IP addresses) are best handled by entering that information manually in Setup|DUN/RAS: - select Static IP address - enter the static IP address Note, however, that DynamIP currently doesn't support proxy servers and the like... #95 I was under the impression that this bug was fixed in RC1. If you have RC1 installed and still can't permanently change fore/back-ground colors, please drop me a line at cmu@bigfoot.com and don't forget to attach all your relevant system info (e.g. what version of Windows (95, 95SR2, NT4, language, etc.). #96 It seems that the file dialog automatically resolves shortcuts (at least it's not something I tried to program; it just happens and I haven't figured out how to prevent it...). Any hints welcome... #99 I'm looking into this right now. I don't think it causes any harm, but something is definitely broken. Thx for the info. Chris