Actually, I think your solution is really good. I can think of a couple of places where I’ll use my modification of your solution.
After all, you came up with the idea. That’s well over half the job. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 10:35 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Get external IP from command line I never said that I know what I'm doing with Powershell... :) PS Why do my eyes hurt all of a sudden? On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Michael B. Smith <mich...@smithcons.com<mailto:mich...@smithcons.com>> wrote: Ah heck, you can do that in one (long) line of PowerShell, even with spaces added for readability. ☺ ☺ ( ( [text.encoding]::ASCII.GetString( (new-object net.webclient).DownloadData( "http://whatismyip.org<http://whatismyip.org/>" ) ) ) + ", " + (get-date).ToShortDateString() + ", " + (get-date).ToShortTimeString() ) >>file.txt Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com<http://theessentialexchange.com/> From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com<mailto:rich...@gmail.com>] Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 10:09 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Get external IP from command line Well, what to do with the information is a different question from what the OP asked. I was just offering another method of accomplishing the task at hand. When I used to use that script I was only interested in having an ongoing record of when my ip changed. Nothing more than that. I didn't even care what the ip was. Now I can't remember why I wanted to know when it changed... On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 9:31 AM, John Aldrich <jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com<mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com>> wrote: Yes, but what do you *do* with that info? I'm in a similar situation where I access my machine at home. I'm on a dynamic IP as well, but I run an application to update my dynamic DNS entry based on similar information to whatismyip.com<http://whatismyip.com/>. Thus, I only have to wait about 15 or 20 minutes after the IP changes to be able to access my machine at home again. :D Sometimes I think my ISP (Windstream) detects a large amount of traffic on my machine and decides to change my IP. Too bad I've figured out a work-around. :D From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com<mailto:rich...@gmail.com>] Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 9:18 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Get external IP from command line Here's a little Powershell script to accomplish the same thing and write the result out to a history file. I've used this via a scheduled task on my home machine to track when my FIOS ip changes. $url = "http://whatismyip.org/"; $wc = new-object system.net.webclient $data = $wc.DownloadData($url) $ip = [System.Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetString($data) $date = get-date $writestr = $ip + "," + " " + $date.toshortdatestring() + "," + " " + $date.ToShortTimeString() add-content C:\somepath\ip.txt $writestr On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 3:23 AM, Gavin Wilby <gavin.wi...@gmail.com<mailto:gavin.wi...@gmail.com>> wrote: Stolen from another website, but this seems to work OK: Create a file named ip.vbs and copy the following into it: Option Explicit Dim http : Set http = CreateObject( "MSXML2.ServerXmlHttp" ) http.Open "GET", "http://whatismyip.org<http://whatismyip.org/>", False http.Send Wscript.Echo http.responseText 'or do whatever you want with it Set http = Nothing Execute using C:\>cscript ip.vbs On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 7:59 AM, Oliver Marshall <oliver.marsh...@g2support.com<mailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.com>> wrote: > > Hi chaps > > > > Does anyone know of a command line tool that can return the external IP of > the machine it’s run on? 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