Tim wrote: >> "firefox http://whatismyipaddress.com/"; >> (where I had to wait for a minute or so to get the response). > > Perhaps it's overloaded? I just tried it, and it took ages responding. > The other site, responded near instantly. Thanks very much for your response, which I shall study carefully. The waiting-time I mentioned was to get a response on my local machine when running firefox on the remote machine. I actually get much the same delay when accessing any site like that, eg when accessing the remote ADSL modem at 192.168.1.1 from the remote machine. I always assumed that it was simply due to the amount of data passed by firefox to my local machine. > Do you have your own webspace, somewhere external from your LAN? Does > it run Apache, or some other webserver where you can run commands, and > have the instructions for doing so? You could run your own script to do > the same thing (tell you your IP address). (See the end of this message > for examples.) I'm not quite sure what you mean. I'm running apache on my local server. But the problem I have at the moment is that I get 3 different IP addresses by 3 methods that have been suggested, and I am not sure which is correct: 1. Accessing whatismyaddress.com , as above 2. Running "traceroute -n www.google.it" on the remote machine 3. Running the program "wget -O - http://ip.tupeux.com | tail" on the remote machine, as someone suggested. Actually, I just tried this again, and (1) and (3) did give the same address, 95.234.132.149 . (Yesterday they gave different addresses, I think.) I can ping this address,but ssh-ing from my local system fails, or rather hangs: ---------------------------------------- [tim@rose Documents]$ ssh -v 95.234.132.149 OpenSSH_5.2p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8k-fips 25 Mar 2009 debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config debug1: Applying options for * debug1: Connecting to 95.234.132.149 [95.234.132.149] port 22. ^C ---------------------------------------- I guess I have not set ssh up properly at some point ... This did work some time ago, before I upgraded the remote machine to CentOS-5.4 . But I'll study the rest of your posting more carefully later, as I said. Thanks again. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
