On 14 June 2011 20:59, Luke Faraone <[email protected]> wrote: > On 06/14/2011 12:09 PM, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre wrote: >> Would it make sense to also have a way to get the current *public* ip >> address? > > That's difficult to determine, without calling on an external service. > > We could just get an API key from whatismyip.com, or use whatismyip.org > / icanhazip.com. >
We already have an app in the default install which does something similar. The remote desktop server makes a call out to the author/maintainers website to discover if the Ubuntu install is remotely accessible via VNC. Aside: I believe we shouldn't be leaking info like this. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vino/+bug/608701 Perhaps as Jordon suggests a *.ubuntu.com based service would be preferable both for IP discovery and VNC connectivity test. Al. -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
