supporting roaming via git URL rewriting

Dieter Plaetinck dieter at plaetinck.be
Fri Dec 23 14:17:28 CET 2011


On Fri, 23 Dec 2011 07:41:29 +1000
Bruce Schultz <bruce.schultz at gmail.com> wrote:

> I solved that situation by adding the external name (ie
> public.adamspiers.org) to the DNS on my ADSL router.
> 
> So if I'm on my LAN at home, public.adamspiers.org -> 10.0.0.12
> 
> But if I'm away from the house, its port forwarded through the router
> to my workstation.

+1. this problem is much broader in scope than some git repositories or even services which only rely on ssh. (as somebody suggested ssh config rewriting)
you need a networking-based abstraction so that all your services/programs deal with it, independent of their protocol.

Dieter


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