On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 20:26 -0400, Bryan Tyson wrote:
On Tuesday 14 June 2005 14:24, Ken Schneider wrote:
Why not have them register with dnydns.org (it's free) and then you could always use the same name to access their computers.
I also use ddclient to check for an IP address change every 5 minutes so I never have to go more than 5 minutes without the ability to connect. Imagine losing the remote connection and having to wait a hour to connect again if the friend isn't around to tell you the new IP address.
How should this be done if the computer is behind a router? In other words, it would be the router's IP that is actually changing, right? So can the computer behind the router detect that the router's IP changed?
Thank you.
Bryan Yes, that is what ddclient does. It checks the address on the wan interface and if it is different it performs an update at dyndns.org
-- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge