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Re: Accessing a host with variable IP addresses / connection types



On 18/04/19 5:36 AM, Celejar wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Apr 2019 04:49:56 +1200
> Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> wrote:
> 
>> On 18/04/19 12:15 AM, Celejar wrote:
>>> Currently, my LAN is 192.168.0.0/24, which is also the addressing
>>> scheme of some of the networks out of my control that I'm setting up a
>>> VPN link from. I deliberately used 10.0.0.0/24 for the VPN to avoid
>>> address collisions with these other networks. It did occur to me to
>>> consider using a different address space, for the VPN or perhaps for the
>>> whole home LAN, but I'd rather not take that step just to solve what
>>> seems a relatively simple problem unless absolutely necessary
>>
>> I ran into that - needing to VPN between 2 networks which clashed, and
>> neither of which I could renumber. In the end I gave up on IPv4, and all
>> my VPNs are now IPv6-only. It took some learning, but that was really an
>> added advantage.
> 
> I've been toying with this, since IPv6 is probably worth moving to
> anyway, but for the current problem, it still seems like overkill - the
> crude solution of just editing /etc/hosts by hand just works ;)

I found the #ipv6 channel on freenode to be extremely helpful - as long
as you can cope with frequent digressions into ice hockey :-)

Richard

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