Thanks all around for the ideas....
Although it still leaves you depending on a distant server for the
information I'm going to try the yi. It is simple and very straight
forward. I also like the features that come with ... the sub-domain name
is kinda nice if you want to give it to others...URL forwarding etc...
Thanks especially, Ronneil.
Bob Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Trillium Technologies Ent.
General Santos City, Philippines
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Ronneil Camara wrote:
>
> I would suggest you sign up for a free dynamic domain name account. I also
> have another script which dials-on-demand my ISP once I get disconnected.
> So, I don't have to worry to redial again. The script is actually process by
> the cron. Yung script ko naman sa baba ay tinatawag ng /etc/ppp/ip-up. What
> the script does is supply your username and your account to the variables
> user_id and password. Pero yun can write it directly. Next is, it get's your
> current ip address and puts it to variable ip_addr. The date is
> self-explanatory. The last is the lynx which post the variables to my
> http://yi.org account. BTW, this script would be applicable to
> http://www.yi.org. If you plan to subscribe to another free dynamic domain,
> all you have to do is replace the lynx line. Good luck!
>
> -----------------------------CUT HERE-------------------------------------
> #!/bin/sh
>
> user_id="youraccount"
> password="yourpassword"
>
> ip_addr=`netstat -rn | egrep ^0.0.0.0 | sed -e "s,.* ,,g" | \
> xargs /sbin/ifconfig | grep "inet.addr" | sed -e "s,.*addr:,," \
> -e "s, .*,,"`
>
> now=`date`
>
> lynx -source -auth=$user_id:$password \
> http://www.yi.org/bin/dyndns.fcgi?ipaddr=$ip_addr | \
> sed -e "s,^,$now: ," -e "s,<.*\?>,,g"
>
> -----------------------------CUT HERE-------------------------------------
>
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