On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 06:13:18PM -0400, David S. Jackson wrote:
>If your external IP number changes, as with DHCP, is there a way
>to find out what it currently is? I was thinking you could keep
>BitchX logged into a chat channel and script a /dns yournick and
>email yourself the results from time to time.
>
>How would you do it?
I set up an account on our Linux router/firewall that has a very simple C
program as its shell. This program simply gets the SSHCLIENT environment
variable and returns it on stdout. We have several customers on cable and
dynamic DSL connections so I have an hourly cron job that uses this to see
if their IP address has changed, then sends e-mail if it hss.
ssh -l sshclient sshclient.celestial.com
Bill
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