I just pick it out of a shell(“ifconfig”). I have something running all the time on that machine - its taking data and sending it to me also on dropbox. A cron-ish job could do it just as easily.
> On Oct 27, 2015, at 8:12 PM, Roger Eller <roger.e.el...@sealedair.com> wrote: > > I almost suggested phx_dropboxlib for that (just to keep it in LiveCode). > On Oct 27, 2015 11:05 PM, "Jerry Jensen" <j...@jhj.com> wrote: > >> I’m doing a similar thing, but writing the current IP# to a particular >> dropbox file that is shared with me. >> >>> On Oct 27, 2015, at 1:39 PM, Roger Eller <roger.e.el...@sealedair.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> I know someone that had a dynamic setup like you describe. It was simple >>> and easy for 1 person access. >>> >>> He had a local script checking the IP every 5 or 10 minutes (at home). >>> When it no longer matched the last known IP, the script would write a >> small >>> text file TO A WEB SERVER that was hosting a site he owns. Then from >>> anywhere, he could access that file to find his way back home (so to >> speak). >>> >>> ~Roger >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 3:45 PM, Richard Gaskin < >> ambassa...@fourthworld.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Most of my servers have fixed IP addresses, but I'm about to add one to >> my >>>> home where the IP will be dynamic. >>>> >>>> The most common solution for making servers with dynamic IPs findable is >>>> DDNS, and there are of course many free providers of such a service. >>>> >>>> Put since this isn't a public server (just for testing and >>>> experimentation) I'll be the only user, and it occurs to me I could >> take a >>>> few minutes to craft a simple solution to know the server's current IP >> by >>>> using a CGI at one of my sites hosted with real DNS in conjunction with >> an >>>> auto-run app on the server to call it similar to what many DDNS services >>>> use. >>>> >>>> I'm inclined to do that only because I like tinkering, but I thought I'd >>>> check in here to see if this very specific use case was something others >>>> might have a need for. If so, I might get around to documenting the CGI >>>> and sharing it, but since most folks just use DDNS I'd guess this >> 302-based >>>> workaround is probably too use-case specific to be of interest. If I'm >>>> wrong let me know and that'll motivate me to get around to documenting >> it >>>> that much sooner. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Richard Gaskin >>>> Fourth World Systems >>>> Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web >>>> ____________________________________________________________________ >>>> ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> use-livecode mailing list >>>> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >>>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >>>> subscription preferences: >>>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> use-livecode mailing list >>> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
