how to connect to my home-pc anytime from anywhere ?

Hi all!

- This problem should be very common to alöl of us, but i could not find information.

- When you leave your home, go outside, you cannot find your home-pc in the internet.

- You cannot ping your home-pc from outside because you do not write down the ip address each time you dial in with your ISP.

- So a tiny software should run on the home-pc and every 10 minutes it should send the ip Address to my web-based email account.

- So I could establis a VPN connection from anywhere in the world, I could copy files from my pc, i could use ftp and i could evan remote-control my pc from anywhere in the world at any time.
(my computer could automatically dial-in after reboot)

- If you do not know of such tiny windows tool, that atomatically sends the ip-address to an email account and you do not know how to write such tool in JAVA/VB/C++ ...
- THEN PLEASE POINT ME TO ANOTHER FORUM OR INTERNET SITE where they should know it!

many thanks in advance
Gerald Trost

mailto:Gerald.Trost@mail.com

i use no-ip.com but there are a number of others, you just load up their client and then at anytime you can connect to yourname.no-ip.com

It works realy well and is free, for a small fee you can register propper domains to this also.

I used http://freedns.afraid.org/ FRom what i have found it has been prety reliable and have rarely had a probem with not being able to update.

I have a linux firewall behind an ADSL router but because i run a mail server. The simple fix was to write a little peice of code that checks the ADSL router (local traffic) every minute or so and compare the IP address with the one in its last lookup table. If they are the same then nothing happens. If it has changed then it polls http://freedns.afraid.org/ and updates the domain name (or multiple domain names) with the new IP address.

If you want the script drop me a line and i will email it to you. its prety simple and onlyh required PHP and CROND.

I use dyndns.org myself, I have been using them for the last 4-5 years

Hi All!
I am very thankful for the hints.
First I will try no-ip.com.
Many thanks for that good answers!
Gerald