On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 11:19 -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 16:58 +0100, Hamster wrote:
> >
> >>On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 09:50:02 -0600
> >>Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>What does dyndns.org have to do with this?
> >>>
> >>>All he said is, "dynamic IP-adress", not, "I use dyndns.org."
> >>
> >>It's just a facility they provide. It's a php script that returns your
> >>current IP. It's got nothing to do with whether or not you USE dyndns,
> >>it's just a facility they provide.
> >
> >
> > Well, ok, but why look elsewhere when the same information is
> > already on your own computer?
> >
> Because many of us live behind NAT. Thus, this information is not
> already on the computer.
It's somewhere near to you, though.
> $ /sbin/ifconfig eth0 | grep 'inet addr'
> inet addr:192.168.2.3 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
>
> $ lynx -dump http://checkip.dyndns.org
>
> Current IP Address: 67.39.12.92
Well, this is interesting...
$ lynx --version
Lynx Version 2.8.5rel.1 (04 Feb 2004)
libwww-FM 2.14, SSL-MM 1.4.1, GNUTLS 1.0.16
Built on linux-gnu Sep 26 2004 12:53:36
$ lynx -dump http://checkip.dyndns.org
400 Bad Request
Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.
_________________________________________________________________
Cherokee web server 0.4.6 Port 80
$ links -dump http://checkip.dyndns.org
Current IP Address: 68.96.39.42
> The 192.168 is non-routable and, as you well know, useless for anything
> outside of my private subnet. I figured since the OP mentioned using a
> P2P client to retrieve his IP address, he wanted the publicly routable
> address.
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