On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Michael Motyka wrote: > If you're not using a domain name then your script could publish your > IP address on your home page ( in the clear or not as you choose ).
The local friendly telco monopoly (~97% of all DSL connections in Krautland) separates the PPPoE modems at least once in 24 h. Unfortunately, the provider collaborates with the feds, and retain the connection info: <http://www.heise.de/ct/aktuell/data/hob-14.01.03-000/> <http://www.heise.de/bin/nt.print/newsticker/data/hob-14.01.03-001/?id=f8097b7f&todo=print> I used to run a crontabbed script that queried a cgi-bin giving back the remote address #!/usr/bin/perl -w # # get own ip addres in plain text print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n"; print $ENV{REMOTE_ADDR}; which got parsed and uploaded as a HTML page to a fixed point in address space. However, thanks to dyndns.org and router with dyndns clients built-in this is now much more painless (no need to hack ddclient to parse your router's status page). More interesting, current wireless routers seem to support VPN tunnelling (IPsec, specifically). Given the capabilities, it would be a piece of cake to slip a VoIP package such as Speak Freely into it. With a headset/USB connection and a web interface to control the app it would certainly provide some added value and be immune to firewalling woes. Speaking of which, has anyone tried Tarzan <http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/tarzan/download.html>? If yes, what is your opinion of it?
