[vdr] Re: solution for programming vdr via mail ???

[Matthieu Weber <mweber@mit.jyu.fi>]

Le Thu 07/03/2002 à 08:19:04AM +0100, M. Fiegert écrivait:
> Uwe Weissbach wrote:
> >There is one problem left
> >as I wrote in my mail 6 hours ago.
> >I cant connect SVDR by telnet and got:
> >
> >Trying 127.0.0.1...
> >Connected to localhost.
> >Escape character is '^]'.
> >Access denied!
> >Connection closed by foreign host.
> >
> There is some security feature in newer vdrs. There were some threads 
> about this issue some time ago.
> I think it should be explained in the manual too.
> I also remember that there was a diffrence between the loopback device 
> and the machine adress.

It depends on the configuration. The loopback interface (called "lo" in
Linux) is setup at boot-time with ifconfig, and is usually assigned
127.0.0.1 as IP address. Then in /etc/hosts you usually have a line
associating IP (127.0.0.1) to machine name (localhost) and one or more
aliases to the machine name (toto, foobar, whatevernameyouwant).

> --> insert your ip in the appropriate config file and try with this 
> adress instead of 127.0.0.1 (or maybe insert this one)

The "lo" interface and "127.0.0.1" address are usually almost synonyms,
except that you seldom use a network interface (which is datalink layer)
in configuration files, and rather IP address (which is network layer
and independent from the underlying hardware).

> >>Did any of you actually read the original post?  The point was having a
> >>way to set the recording schedule of VDR from the internet without
> >>having to have a permanent internet connection or a computer running
> >>24/7.  

What about a GPRS interface ? :) A colleague of mine told me about a
friend of his working for Nokia who did such a vdr he can program from
his mobile phone. But a modem accepting incoming connections would do
the trick too, I suppose.

Matthieu
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