Not a bad idea, but I figured it was easier to register with no-ip and get myself a free dynamic DNS entry. http://www.no-ip.com/ It came with an "updater" that just forms a URL that it passes to no-ip.com that contains your IP address. To be complete, this is what it sends for me: GET http://dynupdate.no-ip.com/update.php?username=xxxxxxx&pass=xxxxxxxx&host=gersmachine.no-ip.org&ip=66.41.74.6 It's a little different if you configure it differently. You can configure it as a daemon (I don't) and tell it you have proxy or nat configured. It'd be trivial to put this in if-up. Then I just ssh to gersmachine.no-ip.org. This article might be of value: http://www.no-ip.com/tips.php/id/3 Ger -- Gerry Skerbitz gsker at tcfreenet.org On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, chewie wrote: [SNIP] > As with all DHCP setups, your computer may lease an IP address > indefinitely, but there is always the chance that the DHCP server will > allocate the address to someone else and give you a new one. What was > my answer? With `ip', `shell', `sed', and `sendmail', I created a > script that updates me whenever the IP address to my NIC changes. [SNIP]