From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 4 20:48:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-141-144.mmcable.com [24.27.141.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B500437B405 for ; Wed, 4 Jul 2001 20:48:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 15945 invoked by uid 100); 5 Jul 2001 03:48:32 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15171.58256.174992.255225@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 22:48:32 -0500 To: "Ryan Masse" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nfs In-Reply-To: <73304284@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ryan Masse types: > is it possible to run nfs over an internet presence securely? would > firewalling out everybody but the destination source be effective enough in > securing the connection? i'm brainstorming ways of sending the output of an > ifconfig statement from my home gateway to that of my webserver and being > able to view the contents via a web browser. reason being is that for the > life of me i can't get ddns to work and its a pain to discover my ip when i > need information on my home lan. > > any other suggestions to helping my problem would be appreciated How about just setting up a CGI script on your webserer that saved the address of your lan? Something like: #!/bin/sh echo "My home lan's IP is $REMOTE_ADDR" > $HOME/LAN_IP Then have your home machine fetch that URL on boot up, or every hour or whatever if your IP address can change without rebooting your machine. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message