Posted by Captain Paralytic on 11/11/30 12:00

On 16 Jan, 03:06, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@attglobal.net> wrote:
> KDawg44 wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> > I am writing a PHP app for a small business (family member owes me
> > after this...) but they need to get their box back before I am
> > finished. They have a DSL with dynamic ip and I need to be able to
> > SSH in to their box, so I need to write a script that i have run as a
> > cron job that will email me the current public IP of their DSL modem
> > (as it will change). I am not sure the best way to go about this....
> > I was hoping someone could give me a suggestion of a PHP script....
>
> > Thanks for any help.
>
> Don't make it hard on yourself. Check out one of the free dynamic IP
> name servers such as dyndns.org.
>
> BTW, there's a good possibility you won't be able to SSH to their box,
> but that's not a PHP problem.
>
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> Jerry Stuckle
> JDS Computer Training Corp.
> jstuck...@attglobal.net
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I use noip.com for a similar service.

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