>If your custom apps live at the same IP as your email client the >answer is easy:
Yes they do. >Have your email client check for mail every 10 minutes. Turn on POP >before SMTP in SIMS and set the time to live to 11 minutes. Your IP >will always be valid. That could work. Now that I've remembered the whole POP Auth thing (I'm still smacking myself that it slipped my mind), the world of what I can do to authenticate my IP has been widely opened. I've given it more thought, what I am probably going to do is very similar to your solution. I'll write a cron job for my home firewall to telnet into SIMS' POP server every 5 minutes and check a dummy POP account. Then with the TTL just over that, my home network will always be authenticated. This way I don't have to worry about rewriting any software, nor worry about who is using which computer in the house (my wife doesn't grasp any of this, she just wants it to work). By going this route, everything will act just as it did when I had a static IP. (Now to tackle the dynamic DNS issue for remote access back into my home network, anyone know of a good FREE dynamic DNS provider? Or do I have to find a way to roll my own?) -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
