On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 10:17:59PM -0500, ScruLoose wrote: > On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 01:33:13AM +0000, Pigeon wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 02:17:57AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 11:14:25AM +0100, wsa wrote: > > > > I think woody is for those who really need seriously stable machine to > > > > act as a server. > > > > > > Or a no-nonsense desktop for your folks that you can administer > > > remotely for them without really having to think about it yourself. > > > > ...speaking of such things - if the remote machine gets a different > > IP, through DHCP, every time it boots, is there a more elegant way I > > can discover this IP than having the remote machine email me when it > > boots? > > Dunno if it's exactly what you're looking for, but you could set Mum up > with a dynDNS.org account (free) and a client (eg ddclient) and then > access Mum's box (er, that sounds kind of wrong) -- the remote machine > -- by domain name.
DynDNS.org accounts are free? I didn't realise that - I thought there was an annual fee (albeit sufficiently minimal that remembering to pay it would be more of a problem than finding the money, even for me :-) ) debian-user scores again. Thanks. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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