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.
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