Re: [Help-gnunet] Re: dynamic IP and masquerading

[Peter F Bradshaw]

On Sun, 16 Jun 2002, David Hansen wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 16 at 22:22 Christian Grothoff wrote:
> > On Sunday 16 June 2002 08:54 am, you wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > i have a dynamic IP (changes excatly every 24h). Is there a way to run
> > > the gnunetd behing a gateway? Would be nice if one can set a hostname
> > > instead of a IP in the gnunet.conf.
> >
> > which is just another name for a router), you may want to specifiy the IP of
> > the NAT box and tell the NAT box to forward incoming UDP/2086 traffic to 
> > your
> > real machine. That should work, but has not been verified (as far as I can
> > tell).
>
> But the *external* IP of the NAT box changes every 24h. So i think i
> have to edit the IP option in gnunet.conf every 24h and restart, or is
> there another way?
>
> David
>

I have a dialup with a firewall here. What I do is have my filewall
mail the IP addr to an account on the machine which runs gnunetd.
With the aid of procmail, sed, awk etc that addr is used to create
the gnunet.conf. What is missing is a signal handler in gnunetd which
would force it to re-read the config. There is also the issue of waiting
for the key - ip addr relationship to time out.

Cheers

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