Remote Control I have set up my home network to b…
Thursday, 29 May 2003 by Jacob TomawRemote Control
I have set up my home network to be accessible from anywhere in the world. To do this I am using the services of Open Domain Server. It is pretty cool. They have a client program that runs a script every so often to determine the publicly resolvable IP address. This address is the address of my router and firewall that sets between my machines at home and the internet. This IP address is then sent to the ODS servers and a name that I have set up with them is updated to resolve to the correct address. I then have set up a couple ports on the router to cut through the firewall to my home machine. Some day I might have a little web server set up at home. I would move all of tomaw.com over to my home machine, but I am not confident with my DSL connection. I am not sure if it would handle the load or if it would have the dependable uptime that I need in a mail server.
I am mostly going to use this home server for fun Java servlet projects that I work on in my spare time. When I have sufficient spare time and actually produce something you all with be the first to know.