Re: Minimal IP address reflector

Tim Emerick <timothyemerick-/[email protected]>
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I use http://ipcheck.sourceforge.net/ to keep my dyndns updated as a cron job.  You could probably use this if you are trying to accomplish the same.  I believe there is also an option to post it to some web page for you to (securely??) check later.  The software emails me a message anytime my IP address changes.  Something like:

ipcheck.py: myserver.homeip.net good 69.92.107.193 -update successful

The script has a fairly exhaustive list of routers that it can poll the info from.

I use the option to check a really minimal url of http://checkip.dyndns.org:8245/ to display a super simple (well, it could be a little simpler) IP address.

If nothing else, the python script might help you with stripping out IP addresses of the above url.

Hope this helps.

Tim



----- Original Message ----
From: Kelly Jones <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2007 11:04:21 AM
Subject: [NMLUG] Minimal IP address reflector


There are several websites that will "reflect" your IP address
(whatsmyip.org, whatismyipaddress.com, auditmypc.com/whats-my-ip.asp,
showipaddress.com, and even things like secure order pages,
etc). You can even get this info from some MediaWikis if you're not
logged in:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/query.php?what=userinfo&format=txt

However, all these pages return lots of extra junk, not to mention
HTTP headers, etc. Is there a "minimal" IP address reflector where I
could maybe telnet to a port on a given host and see my IP? Something
like the daytime service [port 13] NIST offers for the current time
(or time [port 37] service for binary data):

> telnet time-a.nist.gov daytime
Trying 129.6.15.28...
Connected to time-a.nist.gov.
Escape character is '^]'.

54309 07-07-28 16:59:56 50 0 0 523.2 UTC(NIST) *
Connection closed by foreign host.

only for IP addresses? I realize I could write one myself, but am
looking for an existing service.

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