How do you check your external IP?
James Knott
james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Sat May 12 22:07:16 UTC 2012
Peter King wrote:
> On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 04:37:41PM -0400, James Knott wrote:
>
>> What ISP are you using? If Rogers, you have a virtually static IP and a
>> static host name.
> It doesn't change often, but it does change, and if you're in a different
> hemisphere when that happens -- like I am now, when it changed the day before
> yesterday -- you need a solution that can be triggered remotely.
>
Your host name will not change without changing hardware. It is based
on those MAC addresses. While I could use that host name directly, I
use a DNS server to create an alias for it to my own domain name.
--
The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://gtalug.org/
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists
More information about the Legacy
mailing list