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On Sat, 2004-01-10 at 20:56, Dylan Northrup wrote:

> A long time ago, (10.01.04), in a galaxy far, far away, 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.
> 
> I'd use no-ip.com or some dynamic DNS setup.  I've been using no-ip.com for
> a while with no problems.  Sounds like it'd solve your problem.
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