Alle 13:36, venerdì 24 maggio 2002, Charles Philip Chan ha scritto:

On Fri, 24 May 2002 13:17:55 +0200

Nick Selby wrote:

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It's for people like me who don't have a static IP address but want to access their machines by SSH via internet. Anyone know where this service is?

http://www.dyndns.org

http://www.dtdns.net too. Praise

On Fri, 24 May 2002 14:42:55 +0200 Nick Selby wrote:

Is that what dyndns does? I can't see anything about this in the documentation - though again I may be being dense.

Yes, this is what is does. You first enter in a host name and choose a domain from dyndns.org when you register. You then download a client. You then run this client when you log into your isp or start it as a daemon if you are using broad band (just stick the command into /etc/ppp/ip_up.local). What this client does is to map the fully qualified name to the ip address that your isp have assigned to you for the session. You can then access you machine from any where on the Internet by using the fully qualified name. If you run the client in daemon mode, it will check if the ip have changed and remap it accordingly. Charles -- "However, complexity is not always the enemy." -- Larry Wall (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and Associates)

Services like dyndns and tzo provide you with a dynamic host name. You would run a script on your system when it connects, and update your DNS. I use AT&T Broadband, which assigns me a very ugly host name associated with my MAC address, so I have simply set up a host name as a cname to that. I have found with Cable Modem services, that your IP address is reasonably stable. In any case, if you want to use ssh, all you need is the ip address. You can run a script on your system to discover the ip address, and to p[ossibly send email to you whenever it is different from the last one assigned. You can make this a cron job. On 24 May 2002 at 14:42, Nick Selby wrote:

Hmmm. I went to Dyndns and checked it out. Maybe my contacts are fogged today or maybe I didn't explain myself.

My machine logs on and gets an IP from my ISP . The service I was thinking about was one where my machine then snitches what the current IP address is it is using to a service, and the service allows me to log in from somewhee else, find out the current IP address my machine at the office is using, so I can SSH into it.

Is that what dyndns does? I can't see anything about this in the documentation - though again I may be being dense.

Nick

At 07:36 AM 5/24/2002 -0400, you wrote:

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On Fri, 24 May 2002 13:17:55 +0200 Nick Selby wrote:

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It's for people like me who don't have a static IP address but want to access their machines by SSH via internet. Anyone know where this service is?

http://www.dyndns.org

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