Re: DHCP question

Thanks Dave Hall,

I am running SSH with RSA auth,
this idea is great, but I will probably have trouble writing the windows
scripts for this.
Only patience will tell.

Thanks
Chris
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Hall" <dave@dnh.sk.ca>
To: <linux@slg.org>
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 9:37 AM
Subject: Re: DHCP question

> You could use SSH with RSA authentication to call a script on a central
machine (with a static IP), each of the host could have a unique identifier
(probably a host name) which would be used as the key to update the IP
associated.
>
> On the remote machine a script could detect when the IP changes, run a
script on the central server (via ssh) with the host name and IP as
arguments.
>
> On the central machine, the script that is executed by the remote machine
could update a file or database to reflect the change.
>
> If you're not used to writing shell scripts, it may sound complicated but
the scripts do not need to be that complex.
>
> Dave H.
>
> On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 10:07:27AM -0800, Chris wrote:
> > Thanks Modest for the reply.
> > I will try that for one machine, but I have 30 others.
> >
> > I was hoping for a way of determing the ip address, from behind firewall
> > (like www.grc.com does)
> > encrypting it and sending securely somehow.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Chris
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Modest Mycyk" <modest@nova-tek.com>
> > To: <linux@slg.org>
> > Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 8:04 AM
> > Subject: RE: DHCP question
> >
> >
> > > I would recomend going to dyndns.org and registering (for free) to
have
> > your
> > > dynamic address mapped to a domain. ie: me.dyndns.org . Linux clients
are
> > > available for
> > > this system and they will notify dyndns.org as soon as your IP
changes,
> > yet
> > > your domain name
> > > will remain the same.
> > >
> > > Modest
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: owner-linux@slg.org [mailto:owner-linux@slg.org]On Behalf Of
Chris
> > > Sent: December 8, 2000 10:21 AM
> > > To: linux@slg.org
> > > Subject: DHCP question
> > >
> > >
> > > I have a remote computer that I want to log into running linux.
> > > The machine gets its address dynamically.
> > >
> > > Question: How can I get the machine to send me its ip
address(securely)
> > > and how can I port forward into the internal network.(when these
are
> > > all dynamically assigned)?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Chris
> > >
> > >
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