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Mike wrote:

>>that it's his dsl router that gets the dynamic ip address, not the
>>freebsd box. Presumably, the router has a static 192.168.1.x address
>>facing the LAN and the freebsd box uses this as its gateway. I doubt
>>    
>>
>you
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>
>>can install a daemon on the router.
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>The deamon has ways to find out its external ip, so don't worry about
>installing the daemon on the router :)
>
>Mike
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It does? How? The daemon will be running on the Freebsd machine, which 
does not have the external ip address. I use dynamic dns services here 
and there but so far as I know they all require a daemon running on the 
machine which actually has the relevant dynamic address.

This is drifting slightly off-topic, but I'm interested to know.

PWR.