[FreeNX-kNX] Workstation without Fixed IP as FreeNX server

[Jesse Byler]

Depending on how your network is set up, the easiest thing to do  
might be to use one of the dynamic DNS providers such as dyndns.com.   
NX client machines connect to the NX server using a host name, and  
the dynamic DNS provider maps that host name to whatever the current  
dynamically-assigned IP address of the NX server is each time the  
host name is looked up.

For this to work, the server needs to be running an update daemon  
that keeps the dynamic DNS provider's record current.  The web site  
of your provider will give instructions for that, but there are many  
free tools available for this purpose.

Disadvantage: it's probably not a good solution for a commercial or  
high-volume server, since there's always a time window after the  
server's IP address changes but before the DNS record gets updated  
during which clients will try to connect to the old address.  In  
practice for a personal server used by a few people this isn't a big  
deal.

On Jul 13, 2006, at 7:01 AM, LROUFAIL at nc.rr.com wrote:

> This may have been discussed before.  I would like to have the
> capability of having a workstation without a static IP be accessed  
> as a
> freenx server.
>
> I don't know a lot about networking, but I was thinking I could use  
> some
> kind of proxy (maybe SOCKS or a VPN) to give the workstation a static
> external address.
>
> Is this possible with the nx software, or with an external program  
> on Linux?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lawrence
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