On Tuesday 10 April 2007 05:32, Chandhee Thala wrote: > if i connect to the net with a cable modem or some other device that > uses NAT and gives me a private IP addresses, what is the most > "Elegant" way to get my real IP? (assume that the device itself will > not let me have it). > > I can go to some site that gives the visitor their ip address and > screen scrape, but I'd like to know if there is a cleaner solution > before I start scripting.
Nope, that's the way to go. I'd deposite some very small cgi-bin on some webserver, eg this one: #!/usr/bin/perl print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n"; print $ENV{REMOTE_ADDR}; Cheers Benjamin
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