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VPN over dynamic IP?

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It should be possible for the Astaro guys to add the feature to use hostname instead IPs in the VPN connections. FreeS /WAN can make a VPN connection with hostnames on both sides! I had tested that with two Debian Boxes and tow dynamic IPs without any Problems!

About the Shell Script I have the same opinion like Guillermo Lovato.

So I think the only thing what we need, is the option to use DNS hostnames in the VPN configuration of the Astaro GUI. But this will be a task for the Astaro developers.

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0 Guillermo Lovato over 22 years ago

I have two ADSL ends, with dynamic IP.
Can Astaro establish a permanent(ar at least, the more permanent as it can be) VPN tunnel(dual initiated)?

i would add two dyndns accounts, in the VPN setup of astaro, can i use hostnames instead of IP(that would solve the dyndns problems).

There's a chance i can have a single static ip, but i can't count on it, so it's a dynamic-dynamic VPN link
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0 uncue75 over 22 years ago in reply to Guillermo Lovato

go here.
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0 uncue75 over 22 years ago in reply to Guillermo Lovato

go here.
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0 Guillermo Lovato over 22 years ago in reply to uncue75

that's too "hacky" i don't want to touch the bowels of astaro in any way.
also, i'm talking about the latest version, not the 3.2
So, in the "fresh install out of the box" i can't make a dyn-dyn connection using hostnames?

but a dyn-static?(using the dyn as initiator)
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0 uncue75 over 22 years ago in reply to Guillermo Lovato

have you figured out how you are going to keep your ip address up to date with the hostname that you get from dyndns?

I think this is the only way to accomplish what you are trying to do.

The shell script is pretty straight forward. I'm sure astaro as a lot more "hacky"/complicated stuff going on that you just don't see.

would you feel better if astaro incorporated the same script and the just supplied a place in the gui for you to type your dyndns/no-ip host names?

The problem that the script over comes is that if you ip changes, you have to reconfigure the tunnel. it does an nslookup to find your ip and then re-initiates the tunnel. (never written a shell script before in my life, so bare with me if i'm not 100% accurate). If you didn't do this, you would be trying to create a tunnel to an ip that doesn't even support it.
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