From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 13 05:36:17 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 9579C16A4CE for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2005 05:36:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.velocom.com.ar (smtp.velocom.com.ar [200.59.32.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1221943D1D for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2005 05:36:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mguadagnini@velocom.com.ar) Received: from smtp.velocom.com.ar (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.velocom.com.ar (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E65FC68DB for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2005 02:35:56 -0300 (ARST) Received: from velocom.com.ar (adsl362-tasa.via-net-works.net.ar [200.59.198.107]) by smtp.velocom.com.ar (Postfix) with ESMTP id F214BC68CB for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2005 02:35:55 -0300 (ARST) Message-ID: <41E60908.4070004@velocom.com.ar> Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 02:37:12 -0300 From: Mariano Guadagnini User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org References: <41E5C873.4030401@fusemail.com> <6.2.0.14.0.20050112203347.08bccce8@getmail.tanksley.net> <41E5D332.6060608@fusemail.com> <41E5D807.8080202@mindspring.com> In-Reply-To: <41E5D807.8080202@mindspring.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 05:36:17 -0000 Carleton Vaughn wrote: > Brian John wrote: > >> 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. > > Dynamic DNS is often free for personal use. I use DynDNS.org and a > Netgear firewall/router. Works dandy and saves me from having to > research my IP every time Earthlink resets my connection. Personally I use the free service provided by no-ip, and they have a free application (for linux) that runs as a daemon and checks wether the ip had changed, updating automatically the dns, at desired intervals. Maybe you could try if it works in FreeBSD.