I just use a dynamic DNS service which always resolves me to a hostname. Bad-a-bing, never any problems accessing my home machine on a dynamic IP. No delays either (not that I've noticed anyway)
On 24 June 2011 14:31, John Aldrich <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, but what do you *do* with that info? I'm in a similar situation where > I access my machine at home. I'm on a dynamic IP as well, but I run an > application to update my dynamic DNS entry based on similar information to > whatismyip.com. Thus, I only have to wait about 15 or 20 minutes after the > IP changes to be able to access my machine at home again. :D > > Sometimes I think my ISP (Windstream) detects a large amount of traffic on > my machine and decides to change my IP. Too bad I've figured out a > work-around. :D > > > > From: Richard Stovall [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 9:18 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Get external IP from command line > > Here's a little Powershell script to accomplish the same thing and write > the result out to a history file. I've used this via a scheduled task on my > home machine to track when my FIOS ip changes. > > $url = "http://whatismyip.org/"; > $wc = new-object system.net.webclient > $data = $wc.DownloadData($url) > $ip = [System.Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetString($data) > $date = get-date > $writestr = $ip + "," + " " + $date.toshortdatestring() + "," + " " + > $date.ToShortTimeString() > add-content C:\somepath\ip.txt $writestr > On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 3:23 AM, Gavin Wilby <[email protected]> > wrote: > Stolen from another website, but this seems to work OK: > > > Create a file named ip.vbs and copy the following into it: > > Option Explicit > Dim http : Set http = CreateObject( "MSXML2.ServerXmlHttp" ) > http.Open "GET", "http://whatismyip.org";, False > http.Send > Wscript.Echo http.responseText 'or do whatever you want with it > Set http = Nothing > > Execute using > > C:\>cscript ip.vbs > > > On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 7:59 AM, Oliver Marshall > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi chaps > > > > > > > > Does anyone know of a command line tool that can return the external IP > of the machine it’s run on? 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