Tom Needs A Hat Mitchell said: > DynDNS costs money small as it is and you still have to script the > discovery of the DHCP assigned address. Since you have to do that > anyhow there is no reason you cannot simply update a resource you own > via ftp, scp, email, what ever. Heck a simple wget from a periodic cron > job of a small special file name on your web site will log the ipaddress > that you need to ssh into the box. The file does not need to exist. dyndns is free for dynamic ips, you can have 5 on an account. -d +( duncan brown : duncanbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx )+ +( linux "just works" : www.linuxadvocate.net )+ -------------------------------------------------- Understatement of the century: "Hello everybody out there using minix - I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones" - Linus Torvalds, August 1991 --------------------------------------------------