On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 12:12:57PM +1200, Tim Thomson wrote: > Hi, > > I want to write a script, that gets the local ip address, and does a > reverse ns lookup, then sets the hostname to the dns response.
The Trinity OS uses these lines to get the IP and the Point-to-Point peer (if
any)
where EXTIF is the interface
EXTIP=`/sbin/ifconfig | grep -A 4 $EXTIF | awk '/inet/ { print $2 } ' | sed -e
s/addr://`
PTPPP=`/sbin/ifconfig | grep -A 4 $EXTIF | awk '/P-t-P/ { print $3 } ' | sed -e
s/P-t-P://`
HTH
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