[ale] Offsite backup

[David Corbin]

http://checkip.dyndns.org

On Saturday 10 January 2004 20:44, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-01-10 at 20:33, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > If you use something like the automatic scripts from dyndns, you can
> > just point to the box you have listed there.
> >
> > Or you can add a script on a cron job that checks for an updated IP
> > address and send an email to you. I use that method as it is pretty
> > easy.
>
> <homer> Doh! I left out the notion of doing a traceroute back to a
> standard spot. Then just pull out the line you want. Thats the method I
> have found to get around some brain dead access boxes that have no way
> to script in an auto checker. The web access ones are pretty easy,
> though. Use wget and its cookie/login features to grab the status page
> and then dump it through some perl to strip out the chaff.
>
> > On Sat, 2004-01-10 at 19:03, Chris Fowler wrote:
> > > I plan on installing a Linux machine at my father's house to be an
> > > offsite backup.  It will be sitting on a private lan behind a SMC
> > > wireless router.  The router is attached to Comcast.  I need some way
> > > of having this box report to me every day what its IP address is.
> > >
> > > One idea is to write a client/server app in perl that will simply send
> > > a hello UDP packet.  I can then parse the source address from that
> > > packet. Then the perl script will update my /etc/hosts file on my
> > > server in Buford.  He lives in Lincolnton, NC.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Chris
> > >
> > >
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David Corbin <dcorbin at machturtle.com>