Accessing a computer that uses NAT

[Michael Salem]

If you need to connect to a VNC server over the Internet, and you 
have a dynamic IP (i.e., your Internet Service Provider allocates a 
different address every time you connect) -- this is sometimes 
described as NAT, though this usage is confusing -- you can use 
various services which supply you with a fixed Internet address. 
Every time you connect to the Internet, a program running on your 
system updates an Internet directory entry. This is often called 
Dynamic DNS (DDNS). Some services are free of charge, others not.

Amongst others, www.no-ip.org. This lets you connect to, say, 
myaddress.no-ip.org, instead of requiring a permanent numeric 
address.

If everybody knows this, apologies for the waste of bandwidth!

HTH,
-- 
Michael Salem