Verizon DSL?

John Abreau jabr at blu.org
Thu Oct 26 13:53:56 EDT 2000


On Wed, 25 Oct 2000 jc at trillian.mit.edu wrote:

> Well,  of  course,  if  you're on the machine, ifconfig will probably
> tell you.  But if I'm at work and want to ssh into the  machine,  how
> could I discover its address?  Or are they telling me that they don't
> allow things like sshing into a home machine?

What I plan to do is run a cron script that periodically checks the ip
address from ifconfig. When the address changes, the script will email the
new address to a mailbox outside my home network.

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