On Tuesday 20 March 2007 03:44, Celejar wrote: > On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:58:57 +0100 > > Thomas Jollans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday 19 March 2007 14:48, Celejar wrote: > > > I don't, in general, know the IP address. I have a system on my LAN, > > > > ^^^^^^^^^ > > > > if it's on your LAN, why can't you just give a static internal IP address > > ? If a DHCP server supplies certain dynamic information (name servers and > > such), maybe it can be configured to map a MAC to an IP or something ? > > I do indeed have my router / dhcp server configured to assign a > specific IP address to the system, (recognized by its MAC address), as > you suggest. The problem is that I also access the same system over the > internet via dynamic DNS, and the public IP address (actually, that of > the router / gateway - I'm doing port forwarding) is not generally > known.
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