Hey guys hope some of you can help or give me pointers on where to start I want to write a script that will execute ecery 30 mins, the script will get my networks WAN IP using wget -q -O - checkip.dyndns.org|sed -e 's/.*Current IP Address: //' -e 's/<.*$//' i need to store that IP address in a variable then get the script the goto a url and submit the WAN IP in the url can this be done by executing a perl script any advise would be appreciated John