Broadcast your internet ip

i want to do something like broadcasting my application over internet using my ip.

I have a static IP say a.b.c.d and want to deploy some ap开发者_Go百科plication say a war file in tomcat on port 8080 so that some remote friend of mine who is not on network can access it over internet using http://a.b.c.d:8080 in browser. i have windows vista/XP installed on my system.

thanks, hope i made the question clear i am still confused with it :(

If you truly have a static IP, and your computer is not behind a NAT box or firewall, then if a.b.c.d is that static address, what you've described will simply work. If you do have a firewall, you have to add an exception to allow requests in. If you've got a NAT box, which you would use to share that static IP among computers, then you need to set the NAT box up to forward requests on that one port to your computer. FInally, if you want a.b.c.d to be a name, rather than numbers, then you need to register a domain name with a registrar like GoDaddy.com and pay some money.

You can use dyndns and set up a domain for your friend to access. www.dyndns.com

Dynamic DNS service allows you to point a hostname to a dynamic or static IP address or URL.