[AccessD] no-ip.com

Is anyone intimately familiar with no-ip.com (or the concept)?  I have set
up my web server to serve up a site.  Some time ago I set up a no-ip account
to allow using my home office server to serve a web page with a dynamic
address assigned by my cable company.  It no longer works.

It appears that it no longer works because my router has assigned "holes"
through the "firewall" to a specific internal address - 192.168.1.150 which
was what the server was using.  However now the server is being assigned an
address by the router at boot and that number varies.  Thus I need to "hard
code" the IP address for the router back to 192.168.1.150 so that it matches
what the router software has assigned the "holes" to.

I thought I knew how to do this, i.e. (For Win2K Pro) right click My Network
Places, select properties,  select Internet protocol, click properties,
select "use the following IP address", and fill in the IP address, subnet
mask, and default gateway (the router address).  I have done all of that.  I
did NOT fill in the "Use the following DNS Server Addresses" however as I
don't know what that is nor how to find it.

Reboot the server, the router, and the server again and the server does now
report back the numbers I put in when I do an IPConfig from a dos box.

Unfortunately now I can't see the internet from IE on the server.  The
"windows update" software (automatic update) did run however so IT could see
the internet!

Am I close?  Is it just a matter of a tweak somewhere?

Next question.  I have not found a way to test the No-IP thing from a
computer on the same LAN as the server.  Can I put the server in a DMZ and
THEN be able to see the No-IP address from my workstation (inside the
firewall)?  Can I leave the server inside the firewall and place the
workstation in the DMZ and see the No-IP address?  Is it simply impossible
to see it (test this stuff) by my self?

Any help much appreciated.

John W. Colby
www.colbyconsulting.com