From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from grouse.mail.pas.earthlink.net ([207.217.120.116]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19Ws7v-0000N6-00 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 02:26:59 -0400 Received: from sdn-ap-020scfairp0508.dialsprint.net ([65.179.9.254] helo=athena) by grouse.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 19Ws7t-0004MX-00 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Sun, 29 Jun 2003 23:26:57 -0700 Received: from tmoore by athena with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19Ws7n-0002tX-00 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 02:26:51 -0400 Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 02:26:51 -0400 From: Tommy Moore To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: This DHCP is too dynamic Message-ID: <20030630062651.GA11117@earthlink.net> References: <20030629200755.GB24435@rednote.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 09:16:36PM +0100, Andrew Hodgson wrote: > Sign her up for a dynamic dns hostname are very good, > and the Linux clients work very well, run as a daemon etc. The > service is free, and you refer to her box via myname.dyndns.org and > then if they have the correct a record assigned to that hostname then > you can connect. The clients can be configured (i.e, how often to > update dyndns records etc). Good idea Andrew, but this isn't really going to work for a couple of reasons. One is that the dns places usually only let a client update at most every 5 to 10 minutes or so. The other reason is even if she is able to connect to the remote computer her connection will hang after a minute or two because the machine has changed its ip address. That's an interesting way to kep someone from running a server on your network, but then again if the ip changes so often than what do you do when downloading a large file? How would you keep the ip from changing on you during the transfer? Tommy