Using Amazon's Elastic Cloud EC2 and Rsync to back up data files

[me-5yx05kfkO/aqeI1yJSURBw at public.gmane.org (Matthew Gillen)]

Ben Eisenbraun wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 03:02:26PM -0500, Matthew Gillen wrote:
>> John Abreau wrote:
>>> You could use a dynamic DNS service so each instance will be
>>> accessible via a single DNS name.
>> Maybe.  It's possible that the IP addresses are not DHCP, and many of the 
>> dynamic DNS services are not free if you are using a static IP.
> 
> Riddle me ree.  If you are using a static IP, then why do you need dynamic
> DNS?

Because he's getting different machines each time, with different 
(potentially static) IPs and DNS names, and yet you want to trick ssh into 
thinking that it's logging into the same machine each time.

Matt