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turtle
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Formerly turtle2472
 
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Upstate South Carolina
 
2020-06-11, 12:21

The best way to accomplish this if you have a dynamic assigned IP from your ISP is to use a dynamic DNS service. Then you can give them a hostname to whitelist rather than the IP. If the backend they are using can't resolve IPs from hostnames then you would have to manually look up your IP and have them whitelist it each time.

There really is no danger in giving out your public IP. After all, every web host you visit has it. Every app you have likely records it too. The problem would be if you weren't behind a firewall/NAT router. I'm guessing you don't jack directly into the ISP ethernet cable for one computer so you would be fine.

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