From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 28 09:25:40 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BDD216A4CE for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 09:25:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from dyer.circlesquared.com (host217-45-219-83.in-addr.btopenworld.com [217.45.219.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87EEB43D45 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 09:25:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@circlesquared.com) Received: from circlesquared.com (localhost.petanna.net [127.0.0.1]) i0SHUTBn005890; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 17:30:36 GMT (envelope-from peter@circlesquared.com) Message-ID: <4017F1B5.1070004@circlesquared.com> Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 17:30:29 +0000 From: Peter Risdon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20031102 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jon-Eirik Pettersen References: <006001c3e5b8$bf84a3f0$0200a8c0@pc103767> <4017E4D9.8020407@circlesquared.com> <4017E86A.3030807@jonepet.net> In-Reply-To: <4017E86A.3030807@jonepet.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: FreeBSD Question List Subject: Re: Dynamic Router IP. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 17:25:40 -0000 Jon-Eirik Pettersen wrote: > The deamon has ways to find out its external ip, so don't worry about > >>> installing the daemon on the router :) >>> >>> Mike >>> >>> >> It does? How? The daemon will be running on the Freebsd machine, >> which does not have the external ip address. I use dynamic dns >> services here and there but so far as I know they all require a >> daemon running on the machine which actually has the relevant dynamic >> address. >> >> This is drifting slightly off-topic, but I'm interested to know. >> >> PWR. >> >> _______________________________________________ > > > It's possible to configure most of them to get the IP-address from a > web-page. OK, thanks for the clarification. PWR.