[mythtv-users] Display ip of of the frontend?

kim Gross kgross at jensalt.com
Sat Mar 1 04:24:44 UTC 2008


Harry Devine wrote:
> Michael T. Dean wrote:
>   
>> On 02/29/2008 12:05 PM, Chad wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> Although I agree that the best way to do this would probably be via
>>> the dyndns option, if you aren't up for that you could setup an MTA
>>> and email you the IP instead.
>>>     
>>>       
>> I find it quite funny that someone might think it's easier to set up 
>> (and properly secure) an MTA than to install ddclient or click a 
>> checkbox in a router's configuration web app.  ;)
>>
>> Mike
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> I hope nobody minds that I jump in here, but my Linksys cable/dsl router 
> has a DDNS option.  It says I need to sign up at either tzo.com or 
> dyndns.org and, from what I've read, can access my home network thru it, 
> even when my Comcast DHCP address changes.  Has anyone used either of 
> these services?  Pros or cons?  Any other security items that I should 
> consider if I wanted to go this route?  I was thinking that I could 
> setup a port forward to my Mythbox for SSH (like if I SSH to the dynamic 
> domain name on port 2222, forward it to my internal Mythbox's IP on SSH 
> port 22).
>
> Thanks for any ideas.
> Harry
>
> _________
I am currently using tzo.com for my ddns and it works great.  I used an 
older free service for quite a while before I moved to TZO.  The TZO 
setup works perfectly, but I think dyndns.org is quite a bit cheaper.

Kim




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