Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 16:35:37 +0000 From: Peter Risdon <peter@circlesquared.com> To: Mike <list@mail15.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dynamic Router IP. Message-ID: <4017E4D9.8020407@circlesquared.com> In-Reply-To: <006001c3e5b8$bf84a3f0$0200a8c0@pc103767> References: <006001c3e5b8$bf84a3f0$0200a8c0@pc103767>
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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 > > >>can install a daemon on the router. >> >> >> >The deamon has ways to find out its external ip, so don't worry about >installing the daemon on the router :) > >Mike > > 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.
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