On Wed, October 31, 2007 9:37 am, John Carter wrote: > > But a static ip address costs $10 per month. BLOODY RIPOFF!! > > A quick scriptie involving wget to pull the status page off the DSE > router and ruby Net::ftp to push the encrypted result onto a > webserver and a matching one to pull it down and decrypt. > > So now I have a cronjob that fires once an hour, checks the IP address > if its changed splats the ip address onto a webpage. > > Note 1. The ip address changes surprisingly often! The telco is doing > way more work than it needs to.
Have you ever eard of dyndns.org? You could have an address like johncarter.dyndns.org, the dns for which gets updated whenever it changes.. There are clients for all major oses. -- Nick Rout
