[TriLUG] Strategies for dynamic-IP machines

[Jason Tower]

additionally, if you want to put a firewall/router in front of your PC(s)
you can try smoothwall (www.smoothwall.org) which has a built in dyndns
client.  very effective at keeping your xxx.dyndns.org name in sync with
your actual IP address.

> Andrew Perrin wrote:
>
>> 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).
>>
>>
> Sign up for the free dynamic-DNS services at http://www.dyndns.org. I
> use ddclient, a perl script, to keep my DNS entry up to date. It is run
> as /etc/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-eth1.exe by my dhcp client every time my address
> changes (which isn't often). I never have to think about it.
>
> --
>   Mark Turner          Siteseers Inc.
>   www.markturner.net   Open Source Solutions
>                        www.siteseers.net
>
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Jason Tower
Cerient Technologies
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