On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Timothy Murphy <[email protected]>wrote:
> Ed Greshko wrote: > > >> I had a little program which I ran each day > >> as a cron job to mail me the IP address of a machine > >> in a different country. > .. > >> In any case, the program has ceased to work > >> because the site heliohost seems to have gone off-line. > >> > >> I wonder if anyone knows of an alternative site > >> which I could substitute? > >> Or an alternative program? > > > On the other hand, I did another thing once upon a time....but simply > > used a shell script and the output from ifconfig with a bit of grepping > > and cutting. > > ifconfig only seems to give the local 192.168.*.* address. > Is there some way of getting it to tell the true IP address? > > (The remote machine is attached to an ADSL modem. > I can get the IP address by accessing the modem, > but I am not sure how I could automate this. > I guess I could use lynx, and try to abstract the address ...) > > > > Why don't you just sign for a free dynamic DNS service, such as noip or dyndns? They can point a hostname to a dynamic or static IP address or URL. http://www.dyndns.com/ http://www.no-ip.com/ -- Paulo Roma Cavalcanti LCG - UFRJ
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