Secure entry into remote systems
duncan brown
duncanbrown at linuxadvocate.net
Thu May 20 14:45:02 UTC 2004
Tom Needs A Hat Mitchell said:
> DynDNS costs money small as it is and you still have to script the
> discovery of the DHCP assigned address. Since you have to do that
> anyhow there is no reason you cannot simply update a resource you own
> via ftp, scp, email, what ever. Heck a simple wget from a periodic cron
> job of a small special file name on your web site will log the ipaddress
> that you need to ssh into the box. The file does not need to exist.
dyndns is free for dynamic ips, you can have 5 on an account.
-d
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