Re: [PLUG] dyndns

[Pat Regan <thehead@patshead.com>]

gyoza@comcast.net wrote:
> Stewart B. Lone wrote:
> 
>> Before I ran the Linksys router, my Debian Woody firewall ran some
>> update script that was in apt.
>>
> Isn't it only necessary for the script to be run from behind the 
> firewall, so that the remote server see the public IP of your Internet 
> connection?

How is one of the internal machines going to know if the IP address
changed?  If you run your update via cron it will either be laggy, or
inefficient.

Pat

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