From b383bc2d3d7bbf406e136d0054dcab06ed9af54a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Wooding Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2009 12:15:11 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] README: Add some more notes about how useful `noip' is. --- README | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) diff --git a/README b/README index 980f5a4..b067845 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -261,6 +261,25 @@ noip stuff that Emacs does magically find the SSH tunnel and work without me having to care. + Testing + + noip provides a handy way for testing network servers and so on + safely. For a start, you can run your test server apparently on + the same port as the real one. Because noip consults the + environment variable NOIP_SOCKETDIR to find out where to put its + sockets, you can run two at a time and they don't interfere. + And noip doesn't care what port numbers your program tries to + bind, so you don't need to jump through stupid hoops in order to + test programs which use `privileged' ports. + + Other applications + + There are certainly loads of handy things you can do with noip. + If you think of one, let me know! + + Mark Wooding + mdw@distorted.org.uk + Local variables: mode: text -- 2.11.0