Home servers, anyone?

[Jerry Jensen]

I’m doing a similar thing, but writing the current IP# to a particular dropbox file that is shared with me.

> On Oct 27, 2015, at 1:39 PM, Roger Eller <roger.e.eller at sealedair.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.
>> 
>> --
>> Richard Gaskin
>> Fourth World Systems
>> Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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