You just need one trusted box somewhere with a static IP. It doesn't need
to be either end of the VPN connection. All the server has to do is publish
its IP to that machine (possibly a web server, eg www.linuxwebhost.com) and
the client simply reads it. You can encrypt the IP address with PGP or GPG
if you really want to make it secure - then you don't even have to trust the
static IP box that much more than to provide you with the data you send it.
John Wiltshire
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Colin Humphreys [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, 6 October 2000 1:46 pm
> To: David Kempe; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] DSL to DSL connections
>
>
> That ain't going to fix the way a vpn link is defined... You need to
> define one end with a static ip, so the other end can find it. If you
> want it real secure you don't want to rely on someone elses
> dns servers
> to make it happen.
>
> -Colin
>
> David Kempe wrote:
> >
> > > Fix that by using a free Dynamic DNS solution or with
> tricky programming,
> > > update a web site page with the IP addresses...
> > > I think Telstra are working on Static ADSL IP addresses or
> > > possibly have it
> > > and working on multiple IPs... not sure..
> >
> > Telstra won't have static ips for adsl real soon.
> > Bigpond Direct is pretty crap about that.
> >
> > I use dyndns to get around the static ip problem. it works sweetly.
> > www.dyndns.org
> > get the ez-ipupdate client. it rocks.
> >
> > dave
> >
> > --
> > SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/
> > More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
>
>
> --
> SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/
> More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
>
--
SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/
More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
