This DHCP is too dynamic

[Tommy Moore]

On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 09:16:36PM +0100, Andrew Hodgson wrote:
> Sign her up for a dynamic dns hostname <www.dyndns.org> 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