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Can you use a PC as a server, the answer is yes.

Check your Internet Service Provicer contract to see if it allows you to legally run a server on the connection you want to use. On this I'm not going to go into other than to say that if your contract does not allow you to run a server the ISP may take you to court or just turn off your access.

As for your Dynamic/Static with or without router question, the simple answer is that it can be done provided you register with a Dynamic DNS provider and run a small program on your computer that keeps things updated.

The following link will give you much more information about Dynamic DNS setups than I care to think about.

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GlowingBlueMist
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Dynamic DNS can give a dynamic IP a static name. I use no-ip.com, but you can find others with a web search for 'dns hosting'. I use Linux for my PPPoE/firewall/router, so I run their Unix update client automatically whenever pppoe gets an IP.

If your router does not support a particular dynamic DNS service, you could run a service or daemon on a PC that would periodically connect to have them grab your public IP. Or if your IP rarely changes, it can usually be updated with a web browser.

Of course you would need to configure your router to forward necessary port(s) to the private IP of your server (if not set as DMZ).

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David Efflandt

Can I use a PC(having private address and port) connected to a router as a server? . If router is having static public IP and if in another scenario router having dynamic public IP.

How can others access the server. tq

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