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Avoiding dynamic IP address woes with a VPN

8 Comments / DNS, Networks, Open Source, OpenVPN / By Dan Langille / November 26, 2008

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 […]

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When my IP address changes…

Leave a Comment / DHCP, DNS / By Dan Langille / November 24, 2008

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

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