Re: [SLUG] getting ip of an ADSL box...

[cpaul <inc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 11 Jul 2001 10:49:12 +1000 (EST) Mehmet Yousouf
<mehmety@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi, I want to get the ip address of a box that is connected to the net via
> ADSL (I want to be able to ssh on to it). What I think would be simple is
> to get it to email me whenever the ip changes (ifconfig |mail foo@bar)
> just wondering the best place to put this - does ADSL use auth-up? Does
> the ip only change if you lose the connection? Not sure how it uses pppd -
> I could set up a cron job but.... yuk!
> 

i found using "ez-ipupdate" in conjunction with one of the free dynamic
dns services (like dyndns.org) was super-easy and quite fun :-)