[TriLUG] Strategies for dynamic-IP machines

[Andrew Perrin]

Thanks to all who gave Earthlink Cable a moderately good rating - I think
I'm going to go for it.

The biggest thing I'm worried about, though, is the dynamic-IP thing. I
currently have telocity (aka directv broadband) which gives me a static
IP. I don't use it for much, but I do on occasion ssh in from my office
machine to grab a file, start a process, etc.  What strategies do folks
use? I was thinking about some scheme where when the IP changed, the
machine would scp a file containing its new IP address to my office
machine (which is fixed IP).

Thanks for any comments!

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Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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