I’m looking for a dynamic DNS solution. When connected to my home network, my laptop gets a static IP address. When it connects via OpenVPN, it gets a different IP address. I’d like the hostname updated to reflect the last used IP address. I run my own DNS servers at home, and all my hosts are in there. I am not sure that something like noip.com is what I want. I use that […]
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Over the past few weeks, I’ve been learning more about XSL, Javascript, and CSS. Along the way, I’ve been doing much more work with PDO. Yesterday I encountered a 501: Internal Server Error which had me stumped until this morning. The SQL was something like this: INSERT INTO mybconfig.keys (key_name, key_type_id) VALUES ( :key_name, :key_id_type )’ Upon calling execute(), the exception thrown was similar to this: 501: Internal Server Error Description: The server
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I’m sick of dealing with dynamic IP issues. My broadband connection at home has a dynamic IP address. I can always find out what my home IP address is. I’m using dns/noip to manage a hostname which points to home. I can always ssh home via the hostname. The problems arise when I try to restrict access to services provided at home or access to services on external servers. For example, the web
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When my IP address at home changes, what do I need to do? I have servers out there on the Internet, which need to know the new IP address. I need to ssh to each of them and update: /etc/pf.conf – the IP address of my home gateway /etc/hosts /usr/local/etc/nrpe.conf restart stunnel It’s kind of annoying. I think much of it could be avoided with a VPN.
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