Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 00:12:09 -0400 From: "Bob Hall" <rjhjr@cox.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Finding your dynamic external IP Message-ID: <20030804041209.GB23334@kongemord.krig.net> In-Reply-To: <44ptjm9lc4.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <20030803221318.GA13418@sylvester.dsj.net> <44ptjm9lc4.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 11:02:19PM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> "David S. Jackson" <deepbsd@earthlink.net> writes:
>
> > If your external IP number changes, as with DHCP, is there a way
> > to find out what it currently is? I was thinking you could keep
> > BitchX logged into a chat channel and script a /dns yournick and
> > email yourself the results from time to time.
> >
> > How would you do it?
>
> For DHCP specifically, the best thing to do is to use the
> dhclient-exit-hooks script to do whatever you want. My particular
> example is attached...
I use
ifconfig rl0 | grep "inet " | awk '{print $2}'
where rl0 is my external interface.
Bob Hall
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