IP -> e-mail

[Matthias Apitz]

El día Wednesday, June 06, 2012 a las 02:06:48AM -0700, Dánielisz László escribió:

> Hi everybody,
> 
> Let say my computer is connected to the internet with a cable modem and has a dynamic IP address via DHCP. This address is refreshed after every random days.
> I want to know the new address even when I'm not home. Like send an e-mail with the new IP, I already know how to do this, but how can I track the event when my computer receives the new IP?
> Any ideas or same issues?

Hi,

Run this in a cronjob:

lynx -dump myip.nl | fgrep 'WAN IP'

strore the result in a file and when it changes, trigger a mail;

HIH

	matthias
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