From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 13 01:47:33 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EFD116A4CE for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2005 01:47:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from fuse1.fusemail.net (smtp.fusemail.net [69.31.1.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E43F43D2D for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2005 01:47:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brianjohn@fusemail.com) Received: from fusemail.com by fuse1.fusemail.net with asmtp (FuseMail extSMTP) id 1Cou54-0001dK-Q0; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 19:47:23 -0600 Message-ID: <41E5D332.6060608@fusemail.com> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 19:47:30 -0600 From: Brian John User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050107) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Tanksley References: <41E5C873.4030401@fusemail.com> <6.2.0.14.0.20050112203347.08bccce8@getmail.tanksley.net> In-Reply-To: <6.2.0.14.0.20050112203347.08bccce8@getmail.tanksley.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need to monitor when IP Address changes X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 01:47:33 -0000 Thanks, but I don't really need Dynamic DNS. I just want to be able to find out what my home computer's ip address is at any given time. I'd rather not pay anything because I know that this is something that I could probably do myself with a script. I would really like to learn how to do this myself. Mike Tanksley wrote: > 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" > > > _______________________________________________ > 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" >