On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, I wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> [...]
> > The biggest thing I'm worried about, though, is the dynamic-IP thing. I
> > currently have telocity (aka directv broadband) which gives me a static
> > IP. I don't use it for much, but I do on occasion ssh in from my office
> > machine to grab a file, start a process, etc. What strategies do folks
> > use? I was thinking about some scheme where when the IP changed, the
> > machine would scp a file containing its new IP address to my office
> > machine (which is fixed IP).
>
> Another option, if you're of the inclination that doesn't want to mess
> with scripts, is to apt-get install ez-ipupdate. Copy the example from
> /usr/share/doc/ez-ipupdate/examples/ to /etc/ez-ipupdate/, modify, and
> restart ez-ipupdate.
And of course I would leave out the most important bit being that this
method relies on DynDNS.org, which has been suggested by several others.
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