Home servers, anyone?

[Roger Eller]

I know someone that had a dynamic setup like you describe.  It was simple
and easy for 1 person access.

He had a local script checking the IP every 5 or 10 minutes (at home).
When it no longer matched the last known IP, the script would write a small
text file TO A WEB SERVER that was hosting a site he owns.  Then from
anywhere, he could access that file to find his way back home (so to speak).

~Roger


On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 3:45 PM, Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com>
wrote:

> Most of my servers have fixed IP addresses, but I'm about to add one to my
> home where the IP will be dynamic.
>
> The most common solution for making servers with dynamic IPs findable is
> DDNS, and there are of course many free providers of such a service.
>
> Put since this isn't a public server (just for testing and
> experimentation) I'll be the only user, and it occurs to me I could take a
> few minutes to craft a simple solution to know the server's current IP by
> using a CGI at one of my sites hosted with real DNS in conjunction with an
> auto-run app on the server to call it similar to what many DDNS services
> use.
>
> I'm inclined to do that only because I like tinkering, but I thought I'd
> check in here to see if this very specific use case was something others
> might have a need for.  If so, I might get around to documenting the CGI
> and sharing it, but since most folks just use DDNS I'd guess this 302-based
> workaround is probably too use-case specific to be of interest.  If I'm
> wrong let me know and that'll motivate me to get around to documenting it
> that much sooner.
>
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>  Richard Gaskin
>  Fourth World Systems
>  Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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