Ewww. Don't run the script
Ewww. Don't run the script every minute. Run it when the network interface comes up.
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Yeah, once per minute is a bit of an overkill, but running it when the interface comes up won't work in my case. The homeserver is not the one dialing out (PPPOE, DSL), instead it has a static...
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To achieve this aim -- and get a whole lot more, try out the open source home server from www.Amahi.org. All the hard work has been done for you (for starters it provides DDNS and sets up OpenConnect)...
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You might also want to look into using command="/home/user/updateip",no-port-forwarding,no-X11-forwarding,no-agent-forwarding in your authorized_keys file to limit that passphrase-free key to running...
View ArticleEasier fix: IPv6
Faced that same problem for years. One other trick I used was to set up an ssh port forwarding, so I could get to my home machine by SSHing to the public machine on some other port.But more recently I...
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Nice, but how does the ssh port forwarding work? You still need to handle the case where your homeserver IP changes, no?The IPv6 solution sounds interesting, though (currently) less flexible, as it...
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How does the DDNS solution work btw? Does it rely on DynDNS or a similar service or does it require access to an actual DNS server (on the "publicserver") which you control?
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HiYou could also retrieve your IP address directly via: ssh my.server.net 'echo $SSH_CLIENT'> myip.txtThe magic is done by the quotation marks :-)cu
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This misses the point. If my.server.net has a fixed IP, you don't need to do that. If it has a dynamic IP, it won't help. -alex
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