Well, the third party site need not know what the data that your storing
is, as you say, you could encrypt that data with some typical encryption
program, then just decrypt that data as required on each end. Setup the
VPN, and hey presto. away ya go. hell, you could use a public FTP site if
you wanted to, so long as each machine is knowing what to decrypt, your
fine. just use some strong encryption :)
On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, George Vieira wrote:
> Well look at it this way. If you have a Internet account then you most
> likely have a web site and email address (5MB space usually). So either a
> PGP email or FTP encrypted file would do wouldn't it? I mean the static page
> is there already just both servers have to access it.
> The service is there already and no extra hardware is needed..
>
> thanks,
> George Vieira
> Network Administrator
> http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Rundle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 3:00 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] DSL to DSL connections
>
>
> > Or have a central site somewhere with a static ip addres
>
> Sure that works too, I was just suggesting something that avoided the
> need for a third party. As they don't own any realworld ip addresses
> themselves they have to have someone else provide this service which
> they may not be comfortable with.
>
> I was figuring on a central office with an Adsl connection. The server
> at each remote location dials the central office asks the server for
> it's current adsl ip, and then establishes it's own adsl connection and
> subsequent VPN to head office. If head office looses the adsl, then the
> remote office can dial-up and ask for the new ip, if the adsl is down
> then return ip=0, remote server waits say 1 minute and asks again,
> (insert other error handling logic etc etc here).
>
> Of course this assumes that the IP address being assigned for ADSL are
> real-world and not private with a Nat on outbound traffic (which is
> often the case for dial-up connections).
>
> Hmm interesting, I can think of someone who might be able to use this...
>
> Pete
>
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