Sent from my iPad Saswata Banerjee
On 25-Aug-2010, at 12:52 PM, Arun Khan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Yohan Pereira <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On Wednesday 25 August 2010 10:24:40 am Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: >>> Oops. A stupid thought. Have you tried private dyndns-like server? >>> could never get it going although. >> > > I believe what Rajagopal is referring to, is setting up a private DNS > *server* that accepts dynamic updates from "known" clients (with > authentication); i.e. similar to the service that dyndns.com provides. > >> well i got it going .. and it works pretty well. i was lucky to have get a >> router that supports it (quite a few do). I just signed up and set up my >> router with the relevan info and it just .. worked. > > I believe your scenario is the "client" side of the above service. I do not think (if I understand it correctly) it makes sense to have all laptops and pcs to install software that will update dynamic ips every time it connects. Also it may create a problem when it sits behind a corporate firewall. Will it give local ip or the proxy's ip ? > > -- Arun Khan > -- > http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
