[allan16]

I went there and it was set to manual aready...I played with it for a little since I was getting an error message..then I set it up to manual again .....re-started Pc....not it lets me do it !!! GREAT !!!

[jeremy]

click here

[allan16]

I went to http://dyndns.dk and created my account and selected a domain now....

it recognized my public ip address ( the one that I got from whatsmyip.com )

If I go to the service option , this is what is selected:

ip : (public-ip) : The IP-address this name should point to. Usually your current IP-address.

is the way that it should be ?

[jeremy]

i dont see anything wrong in those steps its probably the way it should be , but if you got a dynamic ip (if your ip changes everytime you reconnect) then id suggest youll signup at one of the other dynamic dns services i suggested as dyndns.dk dont have dns updating software and it will be way easier for you to use a software to automatically update it then doing it manually each time

[allan16]

its not working....the domain I selected is this one:
oct8.lir.dk
Can you ping it to see if you get any replys ??

[jeremy]

it gets timed out (but thats normal if you havnt set "allow incoming echo request" in "icmp" tab in the xp firewall options, you havnt told me did that link above helped you to resolve the service error when tryin to enable to xp firewall? and if so did you tick what i said in there? , that host points to your home pc ip right? just makin sure , and just FYI this site have very nice network tools http://centralops.net/

[allan16]

yeah...about the link....it did help me...!!!

I went to services I looked for the service that you told me and it was set to manual . weird.....
So I set it up as disable and then to manual again.....Clicked OK
went back to enable the firewall settings and I got the error message again, So I re-started my PC and tried to enable it again and it worked just fine .
Thanks for that !!! it was great !!

[allan16]

the ip that you get when you ping the domain name that is the ip that I got from whatismyip.com, that is not my home pc.

my pc has a private ip....

[jeremy]

no your probably confusing between your lan card/usb modem ip to the internet ip