Re: [Sheflug] Locating services on the internet

["Graham Cox" <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxx>]

How's about if you get sendmail to email the output from ifconfig to a
hotmail/similar address every time you connect to the internet. Shouldn't be
too hard to do, and saves a lot of time writing scripts like you described
:)
--
Graham

An' Ye harm none,
do as Ye will.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Dawson" <xxxxx [at] chesterfield.ac.uk>
To: <shef-lug [at] list.sheflug.org.uk>
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 2:21 PM
Subject: [Sheflug] Locating services on the internet


> Hi all,
>
> I've a connection to the internet that's ip address is assigned
dynamically.
> I would like to be able to locate the connected box from across the
> internet, initially to access documents available via a web server.
>
> My problem is as the ip address is dynamic so i cannot expect to find it
in
> the same place twice.
>
> As a workaround i thought i could write a script that would do an ifconfig
,
> parse the ouptut to give me an ipaddress and then send that output as an
> http request to a web site that has a cgi script running , and that turns
> the http PUT into a html redirect back to the dhcp'ed box. Then run the
> script every 15 min in a cron job
>
> I'm sure i could parse ifconfig and knock up some perl to generate my html
> redirect(eventually) but how about the initial http PUT from my Suse box.
> would lynx do it.
>
> Any thoughts , or better ideas.
>
> TIA
> Alan Dawson
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