> > so whenever i need to check whether my webpage looks fine (or maybe post > > it on the net for a few hours) i just ssh to this server, and ask anyone > > to check this web link !! > > Umm. So do you or do you not have a real IP from your cable wallah .. if yes > then what about running the webserver in a different port?
Yes, this seems to be a necessity in other situations too. For small single-office clients with dial-up Internet connections, we had a script (wget-based trivial script) running on each of our clients' mail servers, which would periodically connect to our server (which is in an Internet data centre). This would allow our server to note where (i.e. which IP address) the access came from, and thus keep track of the most recent access for each client, with their dynamic IP address. This is a great help if we need to log in over the Net to fix some problem on their server... he doesn't need to look up and tell us what IP his server is on. Then we discovered the joys of transparent proxy. :) VSNL (who was the ISP for most of our clients) began running a transparent proxy, and our script's HTTP access was transparently diverted through this proxy, thus reporting this proxy server's IP address for _all_ our clients. Good fun. :) So we shifted to a different (non-standard) port number on our server for just this one application, and started another virtual server. Now the transparent proxy is bypassed, and our IP-address-tracking works well. :) Wish we could do this just as easily for SMTP too. :) Shuvam _______________________________________________ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
