Home servers, anyone?

[Roger Eller]

I almost suggested phx_dropboxlib for that (just to keep it in LiveCode).
On Oct 27, 2015 11:05 PM, "Jerry Jensen" <jhj at jhj.com> wrote:

> 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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