hmm ... can I be any more vague? 🙂
and let me start out by saying that I'm a PHP moron. I'm trying to get to a point where I can learn it but I'm just not there yet.
Ok, here is the situation. A server machine has a dynamic IP address. I want a Visual Basic program that I am writing to be able to connect to that server without the user having to change the IP address that the client will be connecting to every 7 days or so.
My idea is for the server piece to query it's own IP address every so often and when it changes, the server piece will copy the new address to a MySQL table on a webserver. The clients will then check the webserver for the current IP before attempting to connect to the server directly.
With the MySQL database being local to the webhost, I'm not sure exactly how to go about doing this.
First off ... is this idea completely stupid? If so, what would you suggest? Second off, anybody have any experience doing this in an automated fashion?
Thanks guys.
[edit] for clarity.
