In my opinion Dan Shoop is a high level troll.
As they say on 'House' "They could build monuments to his ego". Dan initially suggested that I use dyndns and things went downhill from there... Dan started using clintonesque parsings of my posts to draw ridiculous conclusions eg: [Jerry wrote] It turns out that it is not hard to get the Airport Extreme Base Station external address: [mbp:]$ snmpwalk -Ov -OQ -c public router ipAdEntAddr 76.177.12.46 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.2 169.254.162.44 192.168.1.1 [Dan responds] Except that this isn't the proper answer to your question at all. Nor are you going to be able to reliably use this either. This isn't your WAN IP address at all, it's a list of all VNICs that the Airport currently has. **************** It looks to me like the IP address of the router is plainly visible :) Who is the 'wooly' thinker here? More: [Jerry wrote ] skynet is the (local) domain of my lan. [Dan reponds ] No it's not. The local domain of your LAN is .local. This isn't a FQDN. ************************* I have a nameserver running on my home network and I use skynet as the domain name ie mbp.skynet is the local name of one of my computers. I think Dan was just being his usual snarky self. More: [Jerry wrote Just out of curiosity, am I the only person who wants to send a 'scripted email' to a location outside of the local network? It seems like that would be a handy notification tool. [Dan responds] No you're the only person doing it in such a silly way. This is all woolly thinking and you really need to understand what you're doing, and more importantly define the real problem you're not really solving. This is ridiculous what you're doing and your approach. What are you really trying to do? Most no one needs to have a mail message sent to them to tell them the address of their IP since any sane person would use a DNS name and not an IP address. Given dyndns solves this problem completely and for free and with next to no effort on your part I find it silly that you're going about it this way. ****************************** Dan is really pissed...I won't do it his way and he is not going to take it anymore :) Later on he expresses displeasure when I assert that he is writing 'Bull Pucky' from his parents basement. Hey Dan if you treat people with arrogance and rudeness, expect the same in return. I have been a reader of this forum for a number of years an I have seen persons become so infuriated with Dan that they swore that they would never return... *********** TLDR: Jerry wrote a short shell script that sends an email notification of his routers external IP whenever it changes. This had a side effect of causing some people to run in tight circles and bite their tails. As far as I am concerned I have finished what I set out to do and plan on moving on to a new task... Thank you all for your patience during this difficult time. Jerry _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
