additionally, if you want to put a firewall/router in front of your PC(s) you can try smoothwall (www.smoothwall.org) which has a built in dyndns client. very effective at keeping your xxx.dyndns.org name in sync with your actual IP address.
> Andrew Perrin wrote: > >> 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). >> >> > Sign up for the free dynamic-DNS services at http://www.dyndns.org. I > use ddclient, a perl script, to keep my DNS entry up to date. It is run > as /etc/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-eth1.exe by my dhcp client every time my address > changes (which isn't often). I never have to think about it. > > -- > Mark Turner Siteseers Inc. > www.markturner.net Open Source Solutions > www.siteseers.net > > > _______________________________________________ > TriLUG mailing list > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ: > http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html ----------------------- Jason Tower Cerient Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
