[Tutor] Socket and Changing IP's

[Sander Sweers]

On Tue,   1 Mar 2011, 01:02:23 CET, Jacob Bender <benderjacob44 at gmail.com> wrote:
>           I'm trying to be a host without having to keep the computer on ALL 
> of the time. Acting as a "Dropbox" would be an example. My IP doesn't 
> change very often. It's stayed the same for days.

The best solution here is to get a hostname from a service like dyndns.org. It has easy ways to update the ip address off the hostname. Then from your script connect to the hostname instead of the ip directly.

Br
sander
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