Hi, Joe wrote: > > Better still is, as David suggested, get a fixed IP address for your > > home connection, but many ISPs do not offer this option, even for > > 'business' accounts.
About 20 years ago i solved the problem by letting the modem start script send a mail to my peer which told him the local IP address. Nowadays with german Telekom DSL it would suffice to send out a mail at about 5:00 in the morning, because the router reconnects automatically around 4:30. This is not free of third party servers, because we used the servers of our mail providers as always-ready facilitators. Even more third party involvement: Currently i participate in a use case which solves the problem of having no static IP by letting machines publish their temporary IP via a Dynamic DNS service provider. The machines' service clients tell the DNS provider's server their local IP which then appears immediately as IP of the hostname which was registered at the service provider. Such services are available for free, with the caveat that they can throw you out at their discretion. Have a nice day :) Thomas