Hosting Perforce server on internet?

Question

I am configuring my system (OSX) as a perforce server for sharing my project work with my coding partner. I want to host my server on the internet so that he will able to connect to my system. I am able to configure through this guide.Working like charm on my local host.

Maybe i am not getting something.

Please guide me to find an address or what procedure I have to do extra for making my system available to my partner . I am very bad in UNIX terminal command i tried these links but no answer worked for me . Perforce with dynamic ip

Online Perforce Repositories

Some questions

Is there any need for static IP .

How i make my system available to partner over internet?

This is my p4 info.

User name: aadi
Client name: aadi-MacBook-Air
Client host: aadi-MacBook-Air.local
Client unknown.
Current directory: /Users/aadi
Client address: 127.0.0.1:50596
Server address: localhost:1666
Server root: .
Server date: 2014/11/18 01:58:14 +0530 IST
Server uptime: 00:00:10
Server version: P4D/DARWIN90U/2011.1/747877 (2013/11/21)
Server license: none
Case Handling: insensitive

Answer 1

I don't believe you need a static IP, so long as your partner can connect to you using your dynamic IP.

Your server has to listen on an IP address which is accessible by your partner, so "localhost:1666" will not work, because 'localhost' means to only accept connections from your own machine.

If your machine, was, say 192.168.1.101, then you'd like to see something like:

Server address: 192.168.1.101:1666

Which you should be able to accomplish by starting your server as 'p4d -p 192.168.1.101:1666'.

You can also try starting your server at 'p4d -p 1666' and see if it will listen on an address that is accessible by your partner's machine. It should, but occasionally there are problems if the IP address is not explicitly specified. If you explicitly specify your machine's IP address, and it is a dynamic IP, then you will have to stop and restart your server on the correct IP address each time your machine's IP address changes, which is rather an annoyance (and is avoided if you can in fact deploy a static IP).

All this business about static vs dynamic IP addresses should go away if your dynamic IP assignment mechanism is well-integrated with your organization's DNS infrastructure, so that your partner can use the hostname of your computer rather than the IP address.

Lastly, don't forget to check your OS X firewall: http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201642