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
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