Topic: Get SME's external IP address sent to an e-mailaddress

[Sibo]

I want the external ip-address sent to me when it changes. I followed the tweaking faq but i receive the LOCAL ipaddress of SME instead of the EXTERNAL ipaddress. My SME 7 is configured as a server/gateway with 2 network interfaces. Does someone know what to change so that it works?

Below is the faq posted on this site.

* How to get SME's IP adress emailed, if it is not static?

Problem: The provider disconnects after 24 hours. You don't have a static IP, you won't or don't use dyndns and you want to recieve the actual IP of your server as soon as it's changed. All you need is an email-account somewhere. Works on all SME since 4.12.
Solution:

Edit

/etc/ppp/ip-up

and enter at before the exit 0
echo $4 | mail -s "New IP Myserver" your_desired@address.org

where "New IP Myserver" is a text at your choice and "your_desired@address.org" is your email adress.

[del]

Hi Sibo,

Why not just use dyndns.org ?  I have for at least the last 2 years without any problem. If you pay instead of using the free setup you can use your own domain.

Regards,
Del

[Sibo]

Yes i tried to use dyndns but it didn't work. I think it has to do with the policy of the chinese government to block a lot of websites and i think dyndns is one of them.

[MSmith]

Any email will do ... inspect the email headers and you will be able to identify your server's IP address.

[gordonr]

Edit

/etc/ppp/ip-up

You don't need to, and shouldn't, edit /etc/ppp/ip-up as your changes will be lost when the initiscripts package is updated. All you need to do is put a simple script in the directory /etc/e-smith/events/ip-change/ which does:

#!/bin/sh
echo $@ | mail -s "New IP MyServer: $@" someone@example.com

This wll automatically be called from /etc/ppp/ip-up.local when the external IP changes.