On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 09:22:08PM -0400, Derrick Hudson wrote: > On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 04:48:51PM -0400, Patrick Rutkowski wrote: > | On Tuesday 21 June 2005 04:39 pm, Valeriu Cerchez wrote: > | > I'm trying to find out a(/n easy) way to determine > | > what is my dynamic IP assigned by my ISP (not my > | > internal DHCP). I wish to make a script to determine > | > that by request. > | > > | > I would greatly appreciate any suggestion. > | > Thanks, Val. > > | While we're at it, i'd love a bash script to mail mine to me :-) > > Why do you want that? I ask because I think DynDNS is a better > solution to the problem I think you are trying to solve. Sign up for > a free Dynamic DNS account at http://www.dyndns.org. Install the > 'ipcheck' or some similar tool and configure it properly. Then your > system will notify dyndns of your address and they publish that via > DNS. For an example, see my domain name. > Maybe he doesn't need/want a domain name and only needs notification of a changed IP address. Maybe he is on dialup and wants to keep a record of his assigned IP address from his ISP without parsing logfiles. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
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