[Opensim-dev] Handling Home-based OpenSim Setups with Dynamic IP - Metropolis Solution

[Ai Austin]

I appreciate there are ways to use tools and web sites to map Dynamic 
assigned and potentially frequently changing IP addresses as often 
assigned by ISPs to home systems, but its a bit of a faff.

I was recently setting up an add on region on the Metropolis Grid 
using their prebuilt OpenSim version which has some enhancements over 
the code in OpenSim Core. I was very impressed with how easy it was 
to use their mod to find and use the currently assigned IP address 
for a home setup with dynamic IP.  Just adding  ExternalHostName = 
"SYSTEMIP" in the Region.ini settings indicates that you want OpenSim 
to use the current IP address.  I found it also works great when you 
move the setup between hosts.. e.g. to mount the region wherever you 
are.  I moved it easily between my home setup and a work system 
without changing anything.

I was chatting to avatar "Alexandra Runningbear" on metropolis last 
night and saying I found this aspect really useful  She indicated 
that the metropolis developers offered this mod to go back into the 
OpenSim Core code if it is wanted.  Is this something that someone 
who knows this area of the code could perhaps look at with the 
Gridmaster on Metropolis (gridmaster at hypergrid.org)?