Re: [Evolution] (no subject)

[Leonard Evens <len math northwestern edu>]

On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 14:54 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 11:35 -0700, leonardevens wrote:
> > Let me tell you what the source of my evolution problem was.   My ISP, every
> > once in a while, changed my ip address.  When that happens, I have to tell
> > my office computer about the change so that it will allow communication from
> > my home machine.   I do this by changing an alas entry in /etc/hosts and
> > rebooting.    I was convinced I had done this, but apparently I hadn't
> > managed to accomplish the reboot.  A friend examined my system and notice it
> > hadn't been rebooted for over six weeks.   So I rebooted, and then
> > everything started working normally.
>
> I'd recommend just setting up an SSH port forward from your home machine
> to your office machine using public/private keys.  Then if the
> connection gets broken [for example: your ISP changes your IP] the
> connection will automatically get recreated.  And you never need to
> worry about it again.
>
> You can run ssh from inittab with an entry like -
> L:235:respawn:/usr/bin/ssh -nNTx -L $LP:$RIP:$RP $USER $HOST
> - where LP = Local Port, RIP = Remote IP, $RP = Report Port

Thanks for the suggestion.  I've been thinking of doing it, but the last
time I tried it just to ssh between two computers on my local network, I
found it a bit confusing.   As soon as my mind is working right again, I
will do as you suggest.
>