The troubling situation
Being a nerd, there is nothing more frustrating than having a dynamic IP-address.
Being a nerd and doing some hosting locally actually makes it even wors!
There’s not much use to running services like Apache or Sendmail with an IP-address that changes at random times.
Random in this particular case means: “When we of Ziggo want it to!”.
Alert by email
So what you basically want is to be alerted whenever you IP has changed.
I wrote some perl-code that does exactly that! And as a bonus, it does some handy logging.
The script can be initiated from command-line, but the best way is making a cronjob of course.
Realworld example
I created two new e-mailadresses; newipkrusjme@gmail.com and newipkrusjme@hotmail.com. Both addresses are now configured on my iPhone to receive all mail automatically,
In the cron, I set it to run as an hourly-job,
And then I did “the Dutch approach“…
Sourcecode
Thanks to Vim it was quite easy to make the sourcecode readable using :TOhtml.
If you love to see the amazing Vim-output or you’re actually seriously interested: You can find the sourcecode here: http://www.krusj.nl/files/newip-2.0.pl.html
Download directly: http://www.krusj.nl/files/newip-2.0.pl
Installing
- download the script, (for example to /usr/local/bin)
- change the email-addresses to your preferred ones,
- change the interface-card, (eth1, eth0 or whatever)
- mkdir /var/log/newip /var/newip,
- chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/newip-2.0.pl,
Testing / Forcing
If you want to test it, just run the script from command-line using:
# /usr/local/bin/newip-2.0 --force-mail
Where dit it go……. ;-(
“The requested URL /files/newip-2.0.pl.html was not found on this server.”
Where did it go……. ;-(
“The requested URL /files/newip-2.0.pl.html was not found on this server.”
Files (perlscript as well as the html-version) available again. Thanks for mentioning Adam! 😉