On 2/2/2012 3:21 PM, Rich Shepard 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.
whatismyip.com has an automation page that returns ONLY the IP address. You can easily use curl with the correct link. For bash: MYIP=$(curl http://automation.whatismyip.com/n09230945.asp) -- Jim Garrison (j...@acm.org) PGP Keys at http://www.jhmg.net RSA 0x04B73B7F DH 0x70738D88 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
