radish Wrote: > I'm not sure how much clearer I can make this - if you're connected to > SN (or any server for that matter) it knows your IP. Period. That's how > TCP/IP works.
ok, i'm not a tcp/ip expert. i was just curious if my isp suddenly switched my IP, (and if i was connected to SN), would SN know without skipping a beat? your answer seems to be yes, fair enough. radish Wrote: > As far as I know you cannot connect your SB to SN from the website (in > fact, I can't think of any way that would be possible). You can control > it while it's connected, including switching it on and off, but it > remains connected even when "off". i should investigate more b4 i assume, (or post), again, my mistake. u do in fact need to connect to SN first at the local level, and can't do it via the website, b4 you can power on or off or anything else. however, i would contend that it would be useful to have the option to connect the SB to the SN via the website, (for various reasons, some of which i've already stated); something that could be done if the SB constantly updated SN with your IP, "actively connected" or not. radish Wrote: > Because it's not needed for the SN functionality and I have absolute > faith in SD to not include things like that. ok, i would tend to agree with that conclusion, but it is based on faith. i will be able to test it, once my ISP updates my IP. i can then log into the SN site and see if it knows the new IP, as the IP is listed next to the SB. (i am hoping it does for technical reasons, altho it would be slightly worrisome if it does, given that we all assume it doesn't). radish Wrote: > I'm still not really sure what you'd use it for, and plenty of ddns > services already exist - so why not use one of them? Slim have plenty > of things to be doing right now :) do you know of any free ones? and even if so, do you know of any that would work using say, my router, or something other than my computer, so i don't have to install a client app and waste cycles on it? as to what i would use it for... well, i could give out: http://MrSinatra.squeezenetwork.com:9000/ to my friends so they could browse my music, or download a tune, (legally of course! ;) or so that i could track my IP for my own uses outside of SN. (as of now, if my SB is on SN, i have to go to their website, log in, and get the IP under the SB preferences) its a utilization that SN could easily include, as you yourself said. i do appreciate your feedback, i'm learning... -mdw -- MrSinatra www.LION-Radio.org Using: Squeezebox2 w/SS 6.3 - Win XP Pro SP2 - 3.2ghz / 2gig ram ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25292 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
