In your message dated Wed, 25 Aug 2004 09:27:15 +0200, David said... > As they others said, a solution is to create a permanent DNS entry for the > "other" computer. ...
Okay - there *might* just be a problem with this method if you use a firewall. I hope I'm wrong and it's easily solved :) I use the *free* Zone Alarm firewall (Windows). I don't know whether this would be an issue with other firewalls. To allow VNC to work though free Zone Alarm, one has to add the Host address (ie your username.dyndns.org address) to its "Trusted Zone". Zone Alarm does a DNS lookup on this host name and allows traffic though the firewall from the resultant IP address. Trouble is: Zone Alarm seems to do the DNS lookup only once - or perhaps occasionally. This means that with a Dynamic DNS host, the IP address change and Zone Alarm may not keep up and will then block VNC traffic (hiding your computer from the other computer). There are ways around this: such as manually forcing Zone Alarm to re-do the DNS lookup or buying the full version of Zone Alarm (which has more configuration options) but it's more hassle. The Zone Alarm user forum has several requests for this behaviour to be changed - some want Zone Alarm to check the DNS entry of dynamic hosts more frequently - but as yet this doesn't seem to have made it to the feature list of the program. If someone has found a work around for this in Zone Alarm, I'd appreciate knowing how you did it. Perhaps - for the record - others could report as to whether other firewalls cause this problem. Kenton PS Sorry about all that 'flame war' stuff. I have just never experienced a list that doesn't fiddle with the Reply-To address and this one has caused me problems. _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
