Rich, You might check out the ddclient project. I've not used it with namecheap, just dyndns, but they claim support for both. http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/ddclient -Mike
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com>wrote: > I want to write a shell script to run as a cron job that checks the > Frontier-assigned IP address of my DSL line against the current IP address > and, if changed, uploads the changed address to namecheap.com's DNS > servers. > > I can see the address (at least while it's static) on my Netgear VFS318, > but there's not a specific URL for that field on the admin web page. There > are a bunch of web-based lookup sites; while they immediately display my IP > address I don't see a way to extract that information from the web page > (perhaps in the page source code?) for local storage and upload to > namecheap.com. > > Many of you folks are professional network administrators and may already > have such a script. Or, you can advise me how to proceed. > > Rich > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. -- Richard Feynman _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
