[olug] New COX managed network bad for Linux

[Robert A. Jacobs]

On Mon, 2002-01-14 at 13:31, Mark E wrote:
> Thanks for the response to my post. I hope I got bad info...
> 
> My greatest concern is, still, that I cannot address my machine from outside 
> my home. Currently I will login to my home PC from work to get some files or 
> do some VNC remote work on lunch break.
> 
> Even after your explanation, I still have apprehension about this part. If 
> that is indeed a problem, then the ability to run a webserver (even on a 
> non-standard port) would be disabled because you could not with any 
> reliability be able to connect the machine or address it from the Internet.

Unless [you | me | we] created a script that ran as a cron job that
periodically ran an ifconfig and sent the output to some known
location...like say a free email account or work account.

Just an idea...a pain in the rear...but an idea.

Rob



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