Ah heck, you can do that in one (long) line of PowerShell, even with spaces added for readability. ☺ ☺
( ( [text.encoding]::ASCII.GetString( (new-object net.webclient).DownloadData( "http://whatismyip.org"; ) ) ) + ", " + (get-date).ToShortDateString() + ", " + (get-date).ToShortTimeString() ) >>file.txt Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Richard Stovall [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 10:09 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Get external IP from command line Well, what to do with the information is a different question from what the OP asked. I was just offering another method of accomplishing the task at hand. When I used to use that script I was only interested in having an ongoing record of when my ip changed. Nothing more than that. I didn't even care what the ip was. Now I can't remember why I wanted to know when it changed... On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 9:31 AM, John Aldrich <[email protected]<mailto:[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<http://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]<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]<mailto:[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<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]<mailto:[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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