Does anyone know of a program that will email the IP address of a host computer whenever the IP address changes?
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program to email IP address for use with VNC?
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DynDns
I don't know of anything that would email it to you but if you sign up to dyndns.com it keeps it constantly up to date and you'll get given a host name. For example username@homeip.net
Then you just put in that instead of the ip address. Of course you would need to update your router settings to reflect this!
I don't know of anything that would email it to you but if you sign up to dyndns.com it keeps it constantly up to date and you'll get given a host name. For example username@homeip.net
Then you just put in that instead of the ip address. Of course you would need to update your router settings to reflect this!
If you're using Linux, here is a script that can be set up as a cron job. Should also work if you can use bash shell scripts with a mac or windows (I don't use either so I don't know how).
#! /bin/sh
date > date
ip=`lynx -dump checkip.dyndns.org | awk '{ print $4 }' | tr -d "\n\n"`
if
cat ip | grep $ip
then echo "IP hasn't changed. Not sending notification"
else
echo "Sending IP change notification"
nail -s $ip YOUR_EMAIL_ADDRESS < date
fi
echo -n `/bin/ip` > ip
#! /bin/sh
date > date
ip=`lynx -dump checkip.dyndns.org | awk '{ print $4 }' | tr -d "\n\n"`
if
cat ip | grep $ip
then echo "IP hasn't changed. Not sending notification"
else
echo "Sending IP change notification"
nail -s $ip YOUR_EMAIL_ADDRESS < date
fi
echo -n `/bin/ip` > ip