Hi, FWIW: while experimenting with that LiveWN thingy back then: http://gridathome.sourceforge.net (now it’s a relic of the past) OpenVPN proved to be a very reliable technique to survive dialup network links, including to the point of setting up computing clusters out of such nodes.
So, I highly recommend considering a fixed OpenVPN endpoint with a fixed DNS address. Granted, it won’t always be available, but it should not be worse than the other solutions. enjoy, Fotis On Sep 23, 2015, at 3:18 AM, Noah Misch <n...@leadboat.com> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 03:42:59AM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 3:28 AM, Andreas Schwab <sch...@linux-m68k.org> >> wrote: >>> Jeffrey Walton <noloa...@gmail.com> writes: >>>> The downside is I am in a dynamic IP block, so you will have to ping >>>> me on occasion to get the IP address you need to connect. >>> >>> Did you consider using a dyndns service? >>> >> Thanks for the suggestion. I tried that a few years back, and had >> problems with the service. >> >> My Verizon router used to (may still have) and option to integrate >> with a DDNS service and perform the update. The problem was it did not >> work. > > The one I use, freedns.afraid.org, requires almost no cooperation from your > other infrastructure. I registered cyclone.h-o-s-t.name in the service, then > added an IP-update cron job to the target machine: > > 43 02 * * * curl -s -o /dev/null > http://freedns.afraid.org/dynamic/update.php?YOUR-BASE64-KEY > > The IP could stay wrong for nearly 24 hours, so this isn't perfect. It's far > better than human-in-the-loop updates, anyway. I then added a CNAME covering > the name by which I prefer to reference the machine: > > cyclone.leadboat.com. 7199 IN CNAME cyclone.h-o-s-t.name. > > _______________________________________________ > Gcc-cfarm-users mailing list > Gcc-cfarm-users@gna.org > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/gcc-cfarm-users cheers, Fotis -- echo "sysadmin know better bash than english" | sed s/min/mins/ \ | sed 's/better bash/bash better/' # signal detected in a CERN forum _______________________________________________ Gcc-cfarm-users mailing list Gcc-cfarm-users@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/gcc-cfarm-users
