[TriLUG] Strategies for dynamic-IP machines

[Daniel T. Chen]

On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Andrew Perrin wrote:
[...]
> 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).

Another option, if you're of the inclination that doesn't want to mess
with scripts, is to apt-get install ez-ipupdate. Copy the example from
/usr/share/doc/ez-ipupdate/examples/ to /etc/ez-ipupdate/, modify, and
restart ez-ipupdate.

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