[pptp-server] dynamic ip address

[Dave Kempe]

The other thing you can do is use a dynamic DNS service. I use dyndns.org
for this and it works really well. My VPN efforts would fail unless I could
reach various hosts taht have dynamic IPs, and Dyndns works great. Linux
client gets invoked when the client dials up, regs the IP in the dns and
blammo you get yourserver.dyndns.org or whatever.
Its free too!

dave

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pptp-server-admin at lists.schulte.org
> [mailto:pptp-server-admin at lists.schulte.org]On Behalf Of Yan Seiner
> Sent: Saturday, 17 June 2000 8:16 AM
> To: Derek Simkowiak
> Cc: ALAN M. ZABELL, MD; pptp-server at lists.schulte.org
> Subject: Re: [pptp-server] dynamic ip address
>
>
> Derek Simkowiak wrote:
> >
> snip...
>
> >         If you're talking about Linux boxes, then one would need the
> > PoPToP server, and one would need the PPTP client for Linux, and yes,
> > email would be one way to figure out what the IP address were.  AFAIK,
> > there is no automated way to do that yet, but it should be
> fairly easy to
> > write scripts to do that for you.
> >
>
> Actually, I think vpnd (or maybe vtund) can use dynip (I think that's
> what it is) to create a vpn between two ISP assigned IPs on the net.
> Basically, the server posts its ip on the dynip server and the client
> looks it up.
>
> I have no idea if it actually works, but it's been written about.  Only
> works for linux boxes.
>
> --Yan
>
> > --Derek
> >
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