Program to E-mail me my Dynamic IP address?

[bornl33t]

Is there a program that will give me access to my own IP address whenever it changes via E-mail or messenger service? I looked a little bit couldn't find anything. There's gotta be and IT profesional on AO that knows about this type of product? THanks

[xmetal2001]

This isn't exactly what you are looking for, but have you looked into dynamic ip services like No-IP that assign your current IP to an address (you.no-ip.com)?

[Crighton]

I also use No-IP to run game and webservers from a dynamic IP machine.

[lopxtc]

What OS are you running? I have a bash script that I use that runs every half-hour (cron entry) that hits my router and gets the WAN ip from it. It compares it to the last known IP address and if its different emails the new IP to my various email accounts (work, hotmail, gmail, etc) ....

For some reason for the past three years I never had a different IP with charter, lately though it seems everytime we lose power or I bounce my router I get a different IP address. Drives me nuts. Whats nice though is my router will automatically update DynDNS each time it changes also.

If you are running a *nix of any kind I can see about getting you that shell script and show you how to set up cron if you dont already know.

Aaron

Is there a program that will give me access to my own IP address whenever it changes via E-mail or messenger service? I looked a little bit couldn't find anything. There's gotta be and IT profesional on AO that knows about this type of product? THanks

[bornl33t]

What OS are you running? I have a bash script that I use that runs every half-hour (cron entry) that hits my router and gets the WAN ip from it. It compares it to the last known IP address and if its different emails the new IP to my various email accounts (work, hotmail, gmail, etc) ....

For some reason for the past three years I never had a different IP with charter, lately though it seems everytime we lose power or I bounce my router I get a different IP address. Drives me nuts. Whats nice though is my router will automatically update DynDNS each time it changes also.

If you are running a *nix of any kind I can see about getting you that shell script and show you how to set up cron if you dont already know.

Aaron

WinXp, so it pry won't work, UNLESS I can geta linux box up an runnning!?

I use no-ip.com for my ftp, but I'm afraid while I'm gone in Germany I'll need something so I'm going to run a VNC server too....

[xmetal2001]

So can't you just VNC to your no-ip address, or am I missing something?

[Miscue]

Dunno if there's a program out there that will do it... but for $500 I'll write you one.

[mikey101]

i can also vouche for no-ip.com's dynamic update client, i'm running an ftp server using it as my dns housing.

[bornl33t]

Dunno if there's a program out there that will do it... but for $500 I'll write you one.

dunno if VNC can do that , I suppose I could try. It's not a huge issue