From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 2 0:27:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-203-60.mmcable.com [65.31.203.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1DBD037B406 for ; Fri, 2 Nov 2001 00:27:45 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 48104 invoked by uid 100); 2 Nov 2001 08:27:44 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15330.22784.533978.310059@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 02:27:44 -0600 To: mike bueide Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Outbound mail using mutt+sendmail? In-Reply-To: <108705530@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 mike bueide types: [snip] > Is there an easier way to go about all this? My provider > doesn't give me a static ip address, so whenever I want to > be sure the mail gets out, I continually have to: > > 1) ifconfig tun0 > 2) nslookup (the ip address given by tun0) > 3) hostname (value returned by nslookup) Check out the dynamic dns services. Dyndns.org is free, and I know people using it. I use tzo.com, which is not free, but gives me more choice in domain names. You then arrange to run a script after you connect to the net. It accesses their system and changes the IP address assigned to your domain name to the one the request came from. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message