Solved: Determining far IP address of NAT/ROUTER

[Aaron Smith - Sun Microsystems - Canberra]

The URL http://checkip.dyndns.org/ will tell me my IP address, but as 
Daniel McNamara suggested to me, using dynamic DNS would be less of a hack.

To use dynamic DNS have a look at http://www.dyndns.org/ , especially 
the Linux/Unix client ddclient at 
http://clients.dyndns.org/unix.php?service=dyndns as it has many 
different methods for determining the IP address and may be able to get 
it from even my Linksys hardware.

Thanks to all that responded,

Aaron.


Michael Still wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Aaron Smith - Sun Microsystems - Canberra wrote:
> 
> 
>>All I can think of so far, is to find some kind soul to host a CGI
>>script for me that displays the IP address incomming HTTP connections,
>>in this case a HTTP request from my workstation.
> 
> 
> I don't think this will work. You'll end up getting the IP address of the
> closest proxy to the web server. Then again, perhaps not. Try:
> http://www.stillhq.com/cgi-bin/remotehost and see if it works for you.
> 
> How about doing a traceroute, and parsing the output?
> 
> Mikal
> 


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Aaron Smith
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Systems Engineer
Sun Microsystems