Re: Looking for program that emails me when dhcp addr changes

From: Sheldon T. Hall - DO NOT MAIL (aquaman_at_tandem.artell.net)
Date: 05/18/05 

Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 08:37:26 -0700

On Mon, 16 May 2005 22:16:11 GMT, Larry Alkoff <nobody@nowhere.com>
wrote:

>I am looking for a Linux program that emails me when my local
>broadband provider changes my IP address. This will be used ssh in
>from remote locations.

Back when I was on a dynamic IP address, I used a script on my system
that hit one of the many pages that tells you your IP address,
compared the result to the previous time it did the same thing, and
e-mailed me (at an external account) if anything changed.

In the long run, though, I found it _much_ better to just pay the
extra $5 or whatever per month for a static IP address that wasn't in
the DHCP address space.

-Shel