Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 20:38:53 -0500 From: Mike Tanksley <mike@tanksley.net> To: Brian John <brianjohn@fusemail.com>, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need to monitor when IP Address changes Message-ID: <6.2.0.14.0.20050112203347.08bccce8@getmail.tanksley.net> In-Reply-To: <41E5C873.4030401@fusemail.com> References: <41E5C873.4030401@fusemail.com>
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Brian, There are several companies that do Dynamic DNS. I use www.sitelutions.com, they have a small agent that you put on one of your home machines. When your IP changes it will update DNS. That will allow you to connect to it suing fully qualified domain name. Mike At 08:01 PM 1/12/2005, Brian John wrote: >Hi, I have SSH setup on my box and home and I want to be able to SSH to it >from work. The only problem is, my ISP uses DHCP, so my IP address >changes. I would like to write a script to monitor my IP address and >email me when it changes. Can somebody help me do this? > >Thanks > >/Brian >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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