On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 18:01 -0500, Leonard Evens wrote: > On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 14:54 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 11:35 -0700, leonardevens wrote: > > > Let me tell you what the source of my evolution problem was. My ISP, > > > every > > > once in a while, changed my ip address. When that happens, I have to tell > > > my office computer about the change so that it will allow communication > > > from > > > my home machine. I do this by changing an alas entry in /etc/hosts and > > > rebooting. I was convinced I had done this, but apparently I hadn't > > > managed to accomplish the reboot. A friend examined my system and notice > > > it > > > hadn't been rebooted for over six weeks. So I rebooted, and then > > > everything started working normally. > > > > I'd recommend just setting up an SSH port forward from your home machine > > to your office machine using public/private keys. Then if the > > connection gets broken [for example: your ISP changes your IP] the > > connection will automatically get recreated. And you never need to > > worry about it again. > > > > You can run ssh from inittab with an entry like - > > L:235:respawn:/usr/bin/ssh -nNTx -L $LP:$RIP:$RP $u...@$host > > - where LP = Local Port, RIP = Remote IP, $RP = Report Port
I am not sure if this applies here, but couldn't you use a Dynamic DNS Free client? http://www.dyndns.com/support/clients/unix.html. I use ddclient (Perl script) since my ISP change my IP every 3 months or so. nomnex _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
