Need to monitor when IP Address changes

Mike Tanksley mike at tanksley.net
Wed Jan 12 17:39:03 PST 2005


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
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