Timothy Murphy wrote: > Ed Greshko wrote: > > >>> I had a little program which I ran each day >>> as a cron job to mail me the IP address of a machine >>> in a different country. >>> > .. > >>> In any case, the program has ceased to work >>> because the site heliohost seems to have gone off-line. >>> >>> I wonder if anyone knows of an alternative site >>> which I could substitute? >>> Or an alternative program? >>> > > >> On the other hand, I did another thing once upon a time....but simply >> used a shell script and the output from ifconfig with a bit of grepping >> and cutting. >> > > ifconfig only seems to give the local 192.168.*.* address. > Is there some way of getting it to tell the true IP address? > Well...that is the "true" address of the machine. > (The remote machine is attached to an ADSL modem. > I can get the IP address by accessing the modem, > but I am not sure how I could automate this. > I guess I could use lynx, and try to abstract the address ...) > > > Now that you've given more detail...your system is connected to an ADSL which is performing NAT. I see others have given you some hints.... Should you want to got the "site" way you can google "detect ip address" and come up with site like http://smart-ip.net/en/ where you can divine the IP address of the WAN port of ADSL modem. -- After living in New York, you trust nobody, but you believe everything. Just in case. Guess Who! http://tinyurl.com/mc4xe7
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