On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 11:43:59AM -0700, Rick Funderburg wrote: > Lan Barnes wrote: > >On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 11:04:29AM -0700, Joshua Penix wrote: > > > >>but I'll recommend another > >>solution to this problem - sign up for a DynDNS service. I use and > >>recommend http://www.dyndns.com/services/dns/dyndns/ > >> > >Thanks, Josh. I'll go that route ... maybe, if I can understand it. Need > >to do research, but you've given me all I need to start. > > > > > Debian has a dyndns client (ddclient) in the package repostiories. If > you using the client behind a NAT router, be sure to configure it to use > the web. The specific config would be something like: > > > # /etc/ddclient.conf > > pid=/var/run/ddclient.pid > protocol=dyndns2 > use=web > server=members.dyndns.org > login=username > password=password > hostname.homelinux.org > > > Then invoke it through cron or hook it into your dhcp client and you are > done. ddclient will not contact the server if the IP is the same, so > running from cron will not result in abusing the server. >
More thanks. -- Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 Tcl/Tk Enthusiast -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
