finding my own ip

[Asaf Maruf]

Some of the popular ones are:

https://www.dyndns.com/
www.no-ip.com
www.dynip.com

Asaf


On Dec 27, 2007 3:29 PM, Kevin Cozens <kevin-4dS5u2o1hCn3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Peter Smerdon wrote:
> > This seems to work, once an hour I get an email in my yahoo inbox
> > containing my IP but I am wondering if there is a `proper' way to do
> > this? It just seems like a bit of a kludge to rely on an outside
> website.
>
> I would hope you mean that it checks for a changed IP address every hour
> but
> only sends a message if the address has changed since the last check.
> Otherwise, you risk filling up your yahoo mail with IP address messages
> and
> your system won't be able to send messages after that when the IP does
> change.
>
> A better idea is to look in to the sites on line which provide DNS
> services
> for machines that have changeable IP addresses. If you do an internet
> search
> on "Dynamic DNS" you will find several sites that offer this service.
> There
> are several offering the service for free.
>
> --
> Cheers!
>
> Kevin.
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