From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 6 14:26:37 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03DBC1065674 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2012 14:26:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from feld@feld.me) Received: from feld.me (unknown [IPv6:2607:f4e0:100:300::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C12898FC18 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2012 14:26:36 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=feld.me; s=blargle; h=In-Reply-To:Message-Id:From:Mime-Version:Cc:Date:References:Subject:To:Content-Type; bh=awAn4gWKGAJz+qZ6I8YNcPHIUEnxCVCs7dvdaduZY/E=; b=UyZqB0ooIbNgV92BSffMXfM3K3SlOrWXAX52q93kcr6lo3hx0Wh4xyVQwwjk3sUMGUxVLMHDUIT3F53/K5k/wyTePUrCLN+HOYDW/Zp1pCxKkTP8jiOpEKthgMO/65Iy; Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=mwi1.coffeenet.org) by feld.me with esmtp (Exim 4.77 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1ScHBu-0002Ex-9C; Wed, 06 Jun 2012 09:26:35 -0500 Received: from feld@feld.me by mwi1.coffeenet.org (Archiveopteryx 3.1.4) with esmtpa id 1338992784-26372-26371/5/35; Wed, 6 Jun 2012 14:26:24 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <1338973608.78319.YahooMailNeo@web162906.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <20120606125125.GA2043@tiny> <20431.22651.888125.876852@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <20120606134611.GA2185@tiny> <201206061411.q56EB2sf030101@mail.r-bonomi.com> Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 09:26:24 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 From: Mark Felder Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <201206061411.q56EB2sf030101@mail.r-bonomi.com> User-Agent: Opera Mail/11.64 (FreeBSD) X-SA-Score: -1.5 Cc: Robert Bonomi Subject: Re: IP -> e-mail X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2012 14:26:37 -0000 On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 09:11:02 -0500, Robert Bonomi wrote: > Matthias, your lynx-based 'solution' does *NOT* solve the OP's question. Incorrect; it does solve his problem. > He wants to know -when- his DHCP assigned address changes. Consider > what happens if both the expired address and the new address are behind > the _same_ NAT translation. The internal addrress changes, but the > external one does not. Please people, read carefully: His ISP is handing out his public IP via DHCP. This is normal for consumer internet connections. He doesn't care about his internal RFC 1918 IP which is handed out by his router's DHCP server; that's an easy problem to solve.