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From: Unruh on 13 Sep 2007 20:07 I have a user at a remote location who is connected to an adsl system with dhcp address assignment ( and am assured that this address assignment will change often) I want to be able to log onto that machine. Is it best to open an openvpn connection between his machine and mine to get in that way? Because of the variable address I cannot ssh into his machine.
From: Moe Trin on 13 Sep 2007 20:24 On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux.mandrake, in article <shkGi.46847$Pd4.28896(a)edtnps82>, Unruh wrote: >I have a user at a remote location who is connected to an adsl system with >dhcp address assignment ( and am assured that this address assignment will >change often) I want to be able to log onto that machine. ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/docs/HOWTO/unmaintained/Dynamic-IP-Hacks -rw-rw-r-- 1 gferg ldp 75619 Jun 2 2003 Dynamic-IP-Hacks >Is it best to open an openvpn connection between his machine and mine to >get in that way? Because of the variable address I cannot ssh into his >machine. Really depends on circumstances. Having him tunnel in may still run into dynamic IP address problems. See that ancient mini-howto for some other ideas. Old guy
From: David W. Hodgins on 13 Sep 2007 20:31 On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 20:07:52 -0400, Unruh <unruh-spam(a)physics.ubc.ca> wrote: > Is it best to open an openvpn connection between his machine and mine to > get in that way? Because of the variable address I cannot ssh into his > machine. Have him set up a hostname registered with https://www.dyndns.com or similar, and install ddclient, and configure it, so it updates the ip address for the hostname, each time he connects to the net. Then you can use ssh, with the hostname. Regards, Dave Hodgins -- Change nomail.afraid.org to ody.ca to reply by email. (nomail.afraid.org has been set up specifically for use in usenet. Feel free to use it yourself.)
From: Bit Twister on 13 Sep 2007 20:50 On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 00:07:52 GMT, Unruh wrote: > I have a user at a remote location who is connected to an adsl system with > dhcp address assignment ( and am assured that this address assignment will > change often) I want to be able to log onto that machine. > Is it best to open an openvpn connection between his machine and mine to > get in that way? Because of the variable address I cannot ssh into his > machine. I had the same problem with my granny aged neighbor. She gets a 1 day lease. My solution, was a script to email me her ip address every time she boots the system. No problem to write a little script to get Inbox location with a little parsing of $USER/.thunderbird/profiles.ini, grep it for ip address, parse out ip addy and update /etc/hosts. Her firewall rules and host.allow have my ip address.
From: Unruh on 14 Sep 2007 01:04
"David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins(a)nomail.afraid.org> writes: >On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 20:07:52 -0400, Unruh <unruh-spam(a)physics.ubc.ca> wrote: >> Is it best to open an openvpn connection between his machine and mine to >> get in that way? Because of the variable address I cannot ssh into his >> machine. >Have him set up a hostname registered with https://www.dyndns.com >or similar, and install ddclient, and configure it, so it updates >the ip address for the hostname, each time he connects to the net. >Then you can use ssh, with the hostname. >Regards, Dave Hodgins Interesting. Why does noone support the openvpn route? Are there problems with it? With the init script launching openvpn it would seem the way to go, but the resistance of the three posters makes me worried. >-- >Change nomail.afraid.org to ody.ca to reply by email. >(nomail.afraid.org has been set up specifically for >use in usenet. Feel free to use it yourself.) |