[H-GEN] Dynamic IPs

[Peter J Arnold]

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Looking at this from a completely different perspective; Why don't you take a 
look at dyndns. You can assign a dnsname to a dynamic ip such that every time 
you dial in, the appropriate code is run in your ip-up script which assigns your 
dynamic ip to your dns name. That way you can ping yourfavouritename.dyndns.org 
and get the ip address everytime..... There are scripts for various platforms 
and works fine for me on solaris 2.6, pppd and uq dial in



cheers
Peter Arnold


> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Does anyone know of any software that will allow posting of your dynamically
> assigned IP address somewhere (and somehow) so that a web page link can go
> to the page, regardless of its current IP address?
> 
> I have a couple of files on my home box I'd like to have access to, but if
> my ppp dies during the day and auto-redials, I don't know the new IP
> address.  A link on a page somewhere that automatically gets redirected to
> the right IP address would be worth its weight in chocolate.
> 
> Win32 or Linux software is OK, not necessarily in that order!
> 
> Regards,
> Hilton Travis
> 
> 
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