How to tell IP address of remote machine?

Ed Greshko Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Sun Oct 25 15:35:45 UTC 2009


Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Ed Greshko wrote:
>
>   
>>> I had a little program which I ran each day
>>> as a cron job to mail me the IP address of a machine
>>> in a different country.
>>>       
> ..
>   
>>> In any case, the program has ceased to work
>>> because the site heliohost seems to have gone off-line.
>>>
>>> I wonder if anyone knows of an alternative site
>>> which I could substitute?
>>> Or an alternative program?
>>>       
>
>   
>> On the other hand, I did another thing once upon a time....but simply
>> used a shell script and the output from ifconfig with a bit of grepping
>> and cutting.
>>     
>
> ifconfig only seems to give the local 192.168.*.* address.
> Is there some way of getting it to tell the true IP address?
>   
Well...that is the "true" address of the machine.
> (The remote machine is attached to an ADSL modem.
> I can get the IP address by accessing the modem,
> but I am not sure how I could automate this.
> I guess I could use lynx, and try to abstract the address ...)
>
>  
>   
Now that you've given more detail...your system is connected to an ADSL
which is performing NAT.

I see others have given you some hints....  Should you want to got the
"site" way you can google "detect ip address" and come up with site like
http://smart-ip.net/en/ where you can divine the IP address of the WAN
port of ADSL modem.




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