How do you check your external IP?

[Charles Philip Chan]

Peter King <peter.king-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> writes:

> What a great idea! I've been bitten by such external IP changes while
> far away from the machine, and it would be great to have a solid
> script to email me the change, so I wouldn't have to try to talk
> someone through it at long distance (or give away any passwords). Post
> one if you write it!

Why not just use a dynamic DNS service (such as noip[1] or dyndns[2])
and have your router update the dynanic DNS entry (if it supports it) or
use ddclient[3]? ddclient is part of most distros.

Charles

Footnotes: 
[1] http://www.no-ip.com/ 

[2] http://dyn.com/dns/ 

[3] http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/ddclient  

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