[mythtv-users] locating my MythTV box from the internet using
a domain name
Ian Forde
ian at duckland.org
Thu Feb 19 22:10:19 EST 2004
On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 17:59, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> A good idea? Can't say what is good for you, but remember that you'll have
> to consider security more carefully if your Myth host makes any of its
> services available over the Internet.
Yeah, but there's no reason why one can't put it on a ssl-enabled
webserver with client cert authentication... or even better, have the
myth box on your internal network and run a reverse proxy with ssl and
client cert authentication...
> As to whose job it is ... it certainly is not a job for MythTV itself,
> since Myth doesn't do DNS. Who is authoritative for "mydomainname.com"
> (that is, whatever real domain name you intend to use)?
Just find a registrar for the forward lookup... you don't need a reverse
mapping for this...
> If your ISP is, then it has to update its DNS records to associate this FQN
> with your available IP address.
>
> If you run your own authoritative server, then you update your own DNS
> records.
If you have a static address, it'll work just fine, otherwise you can
use dyndns.org or cobble another solution together. (Find a friend with
a box with a static IP, then run a cron script that sends dynamic update
packets when my dhcp lease gets a new address...)
> If whatever registrar you use (or someone else) runs the authoritative
> server for you, it will have a procedure to let you update the records.
>
> Either way, this is really just a standard DNS question, with nothing
> specific to Myth about it.
Agreed.
-Ian
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