Dynamic address problem

Matthew Simpson msimpson at market-research.com
Sun Apr 28 04:08:03 EST 2002


Hi Tim

Sounds good, What would the best way to do this be? Can each module 
in the rsync.conf file have a different password? I noticed the 
--password-file directive for the client side, but how do I set the 
client side to ask for a password?

Matt

>How about switching to password authentication?  Makes you spoof-proof.
>Anybody who can sniff your network to get the plaintext can probably spoof
>your IP anyway, so you lose no security(probably gain a bit), and this
>doesn't have to wait for dns registration to propogate.
>
>Tim Conway
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>Michael Zimmermann <zim at vegaa.de>
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>04/24/2002 02:13 AM
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>         To:     Matthew Simpson <msimpson at market-research.com>
>rsync at lists.samba.org
>         cc:     (bcc: Tim Conway/LMT/SC/PHILIPS)
>         Subject:        Re: Dynamic address problem
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>At Wednesday 24 April 2002 08:19 Matthew Simpson wrote:
>>  We have clients which dynamic IPs which we have setup with
>>  <host>.dyndns.org addresses. We  have added these to the rsync.conf
>>  'hosts allow=" but they are being denied access..
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>I assume that this could be DNS-update (resp. -actuality) Problem.
>Are you sure, that at the moment rsync is called, the server's
>DNS-resolver delivers the correct IP?
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