Re: External IP
On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:23:40 -0400
Andrew Reid <reidac@bellatlantic.net> wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 April 2008 19:39, Daniel Ngu wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > How do I find out what's the dynamic IP I get when connected
> > to my ISP? I'm not broadband BTW.
>
> I use "www.whatsmyip.org", I have NAT at home, and the
> "far side" of my DSL modem is a private class-A address
> (10.0.something.something), so it's useful to have a utility
> that cuts through the crap.
>
> Of course, it does require that you have a working
> web browser. If you (or I) were clever, we'd probably
> do some tricky tracert thing.
ddclient can parse html to read your external IP address from your
router's status page. I don't know if there's a clean way to use that
functionality independently of ddclient itself.
> Andrew Reid / reidac@bellatlantic.net
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