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?
(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 ...)
--
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