Hello BW, Sunday, July 14, 2002, 6:22:00 AM, you wrote:
BM> The problem is that both ends of the connection will (probably) have a new BM> IP addressed each time he connects to the ISP. My cable modem IP BM> changes a couple times a month. A dial up would change every time he BM> connects. VNC client needs to know the IP of the VNC server to make a BM> connection. BM> Two possible solutions: 1) Use a utility to periodically determine the server BM> IP and then e-mail it to the client computer if it has changed. BM> 2) Another is registering a domain name for the server and sign up BM> with one of the dynamic IP updating services. (There are a number BM> of dynamic IP services, I happen to use www.changeip.com). BM> ..... BM> And perhaps VNC will allow us the option of using of domain names BM> someday in the future. It does already, as at work I use the machine name rather than the IP address because we have DHCP on our network. This is because (I assume) Host name look up (DNS) is already part of the TCP/IP protocol. How do you think the Internet works? Try connecting to http://212.58.224.111/ this is the IP address for www.bbc.co.uk. I.e. your Internet browser will tell the IP stack on your PC to go to its DNS server/local DNS cache and retrieve the specified IP address from that cache or server. Therefore using a machine name instead of a IP address should work. The only problem is that the name (for example) the local host name is not usually available to the DNS Servers on the Internet. This is in part due to how the WWW (not to be confused with the Internet) works. So point 2 will work, to a point because the DNS servers on the internet only know about domain names i.e. *.com, *.co.uk, etc...... The other solution is to get a ordinary modem in his home pc and either dial directly into his office network or his PC. Only assuming that the IT bods at his office allows him to dial in remotely. -- Best regards, Graham mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
