But that service would have to update its record every minute or so. It's not the ip address that's the problem. I don't mind typing numbers. It's the way her ISP changes the ip address every minute or so. I'm not kidding--I've had her do an ifconfig ppp0 and we get a different address every minute or so. Andrew Hodgson writes: > From: Andrew Hodgson <andrew at hodgsonfamily.org> > > Janina Sajka in <20030629200755.GB24435 at rednote.net>: > > >I'm trying to help a friend. I have an account on her system, but her > >ISP seems to change her IP about once a minute. > > > >Aside from my curiosity about how they could make such a thing work, is > >there anything I can do to stabalize her on a single address? > > > >I've never seen anything like this, but then I have no experience with > >pppoe, either. > > Sign her up for a dynamic dns hostname <www.dyndns.org> are very good, > and the Linux clients work very well, run as a daemon etc. The > service is free, and you refer to her box via myname.dyndns.org and > then if they have the correct a record assigned to that hostname then > you can connect. The clients can be configured (i.e, how often to > update dyndns records etc). > > Andrew. > -- > Andrew Hodgson, Bromyard, Herefordshire, UK. > Email: Andrew at hodgsonfamily.org > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175
