The only problem is that the location with the dynamic IP is the station in which he's connecting from. And if he was to lock down the connection at the firewall to an IP he'd have to change that whenever he got a new dynamic address.
It's a bad idea to tie a secure connection to a resolveable name. Those are much easier to spoof than an IP. But I guess its at least still better than leaving it wide open. Although I don't think most firewalls will allow you to put in a resolveable address. That would mean it would have to technically re-resolve it whenever each packet came in. Or after each DNS cache flush. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Larry Phipps Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 5:39 AM To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: [Elecraft] Remoting the K2 Hi Stephen. Check out DynDNS. They provide a free service that correlates an alphanumeric IP alias address with your currently assigned numeric IP address. A utility on your PC provides your address to their server. The service is called DDNS. Some routers have this built in. Instead of an address like nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn, the address of your PC becomes something like g4dsp.homeip.net. The server finds you based on its knowledge of your actual address. I believe this is discussed in one of the sections of my website (www.telepostinc.com) under the heading Remote Base Station Related Stuff... I posted an email about this to the list in response to your earlier inquiry, but I forgot to change the Subject (it was posted from a digest entry), so you may have missed it. There is lots of interesting info about the remote control system I use there. 73, Larry N8LP > Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 07:55:13 +0000 > From: Stephen Prior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Elecraft] Remoting the K2 > To: elecraft <Elecraft@mailman.qth.net> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > Thanks to all with their help and advice which I must now mull over. One > thing that has (rather late in the day) occurred to me is that I do not have > a static IP address from my ISP. So I could, presumably, look up the > address given and use that, accepting that I shall have to change the > settings every time I reboot the router which is very rarely. > > 73 Stephen G4SJP _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
