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.

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