Re: extern IP
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On Friday 16 July 2004 13:22, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> On Friday 16 July 2004 11:35, you wrote:
> > On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > > we have a wlan at our dorm and we get all itnernal IPs DHCP-ed.
> > > Everything works fine but I'd like to run an internal www and therefore
> > > need my external IP.
> >
> > You don't need your external IP to run an internal web server. If your
> > DHCP assigned address is changing often then that's a hassle though...
>
> well, the problem is, as already Nico told me, since i don't have access to
> the router i can't re-route packets to the internal www server so that it
> can become external and use free dyndns services to update hostname to IP
> resolution so I guess I'll have to forget serving web content for a while.
>
> > > The problem is, I don't have access to the D-Link router/DHCP server so
> > > that i could run ifconfig on it. Any ideas are appreciated.
> >
> > The way I do it with my Linksys router is to parse the output from its
> > status page which contains the modem IP. I get the text of the page
> > using:
> >
> > links -dump http://192.168.1.1/Status_Router.htm
> >
> > Maybe there is a better way.
>
> I'll have to work on that, surely, but thanks for your help,
>
> Boris.
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