Oh, haha. Sorry, I get confused easily! --Nathan
----- Original Message ----- From: "Lucien Wells" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Nathan Bolender" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2003 6:57 PM Subject: Re(2): AuthHost & Hostnames. > Nathan, > I think you misunderstood what I meant. I want to use the -AuthHost switch for blocking connections, but as far as I can tell, it only works with IP addresses. > > Cheers > Lucien. > -----Original Message----- > > From: Nathan Bolender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: 31/08/2003 03:25 > Subject: Re: AuthHost & Hostnames. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > Hi All, > > Let me start by saying I have just wadded through about 800 emails in the > mailing list search and tried google, so no "STFW"s please ;-) > > > > I am looking at using the AuthHost feature to restrict connections, but > the connections will be from machines with dynamic IPs, thus I would like to > use hostnames. First off, is this possible without an additional app such as > VNCProxy? I am aware that it is not entirely difficult to spoof hostnames, > but its still an extra layer of security that I would like to enable. > > > >[snip] > > Hi. my home computer has a dynamic IP, and I've found a great solution for > that. There's a service at www.no-ip.com that will give you a program and it > will update your IP every 30 minutes. It hides on the tray and takes up > little memory, so thats not really a problem. So then, when you want to > access your computer, you can have vnc connect to mychosenname.no-ip.com:0 > or go to mychosenname.no-ip.com:5800 for the java viewer! This has been > working for me for a few weeks, and its made it very easy. > > >First off, is this possible without an additional app > > I'm not sure. no-ip.com uses their little app for this. Can't help you on > this question, sorry. > > --nat _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
