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Re: [nls-archive] AugTerm source

To: Howard Palmer <hepster@pacbell.net>
Cc: nls-archive@chm.cim3.net
From: Jonathan Cheyer <jonathan@cheyer.biz>
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 21:38:04 -0800
Message-id: <436AF3BC.8010800@cheyer.biz>
Hi Howard,    (01)

I realized that putting the hostname in hosts.allow for a dynamic IP 
won't work, because ssh does a reverse DNS lookup on the IP address of 
the machine that you are connecting from (actually the NAT'd address). 
The reverse DNS lookup will return the canonical name for that IP 
address (i.e. adsl-71-132-13-235.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net) and the 
hostnames will not match.    (02)

There doesn't seem to be a good solution for this problem. Static IPs 
can be useful to have, although they always cost more money for some 
rason. Although the openssh server supports hostbased authentication for 
ssh2 protocol, putty (on Windows XP) does not support it at all.    (03)

In the meantime, I have hacked up a script that will stick your dynamic 
IP number into my hosts.allow file. It's not ideal, but should work for now.    (04)

Before you use subversion, go to the following url in your browser:    (05)

http://nls-augment.org/cgi-bin/ip    (06)

You'll need to do that each time your IP changes.    (07)

Jonathan    (08)

Howard Palmer wrote:
> Jonathan,
> 
> 
>>Ok, it's set up. Give it a try.
> 
> 
> I'm not getting past the connect.
> 
> Howard    (09)
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