Dynamic Router IP.

Teodor Iliescu tiliescu at learn.senecac.on.ca
Wed Jan 28 16:17:30 PST 2004


On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Marwan Sultan wrote:
>
>    Question is:
>    Is there a way to configure the FreeBSD box to send an auto email for
>    me each time the router has a new 'real IP' ?
>
>    For sure by somehow the BSD box knows about the new ip for router.
>
>    Thank you very much in advance.

Marwan,

I am currently using dyndns(www.dyndns.org) and a client called ddclient.
The client is basically a perl program that runns in the background, and
updates your external ip, such as 64.229.xxx.xxx to myname.dyndns.org.
The program gets this by visiting a webpage such as checkip.dyndns.org, or
one gotten from your local router.

This would allow you to always connect to your inside computer by ssh'ing
to myname.dyndns.org.

"Unix is simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity."
- Dennis Ritchie

Teodor I.
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