finding my own ip

[James Knott]

Peter Smerdon wrote:
> Hello Everyone and seasons greetings..
>
> My job takes me on the road a lot, but I like to keep my server running
> so I can ssh into it from anywhere I happen to be. This way my email and
> newsgroups for example are all in one location. 
>
> The problem is my IP address is dynamic and dsl, every few days it changes.
> My isp (magma.ca) used to provide a webpage that I could see what my
> current IP is but now that Primus bought them, this page has gone and I
> have no way of knowing what my IP at home is.
>   

Your message finally showed up, so I'll reply with the answer I gave in
a reply to a reply.

I use this script in KDE to display the address.
It requires Lynx.

#! /bin/sh
kdialog --msgbox "$(lynx --dump "http://checkip.dyndns.org/")"


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