Topic: Display servers wan ip on primary web page

[gbentley]

On sme's behind dynamic dsl is there a way to display the servers ip on the primary web page?

(dyndns is great but how to reveal new ip without logging in?)

[Craig Cabrey]

You could just iframe this:

http://checkip.dyndns.org/

[gbentley]

That only shows _your_ ip - not the servers ....

[Stefano]

hi

what ip are you talking about? could you please clarify your setup and your needs?

thank you
Ciao
Stefano

[janet]

gbentley

If you use the ddclient contrib to manage the dynamic IP, then it emails admin when the IP changes.

[gbentley]

gbentley

If you use the ddclient contrib to manage the dynamic IP, then it emails admin when the IP changes.

Think ddclient only works in gateway mode - this is server only.

Neno - am talking about the ip address allocated by the adsl isp.

I have tried a few perl scripts but get error messages and am
not really up on perl enough to understand why.

[janet]

gbentley

I'm pretty sure ddclient works in gateway & server or server only modes.

[gbentley]

Either way, Im pretty happy with letting the router update Dyndns, and I can log into server manager using the hostname created on the dyndns account however to vpn you need to use the ip address and using dyndns doesnt reveal it.

Surely there must be a neat bit of perl / php etc to do this?

[jdavey]

Traceroute is your friend.

Windows command - tracert FQDN
Linux command -traceroute FQDN

[janet]

gbentley

....however to vpn you need to use the ip address...

What makes you say that ?
I VPN to a sme using hostname, on a dynamic IP & with dyndns hosts.
If WINS is configured correctly in all your VPN connections points, then your router should respond to the hostname domain.

[gbentley]

gbentley

What makes you say that ?

Because when I tried to setup a pptp from XP using the hostname it didnt work.

I have just tried this again and now it works fine. Thanks Mary. Sorry list!

[Craig Cabrey]

That only shows _your_ ip - not the servers ....

It should show the external (public) IP which is what you need to VPN in (unless I'm misunderstanding you).

[gbentley]

It should show the external (public) IP which is what you need to VPN in (unless I'm misunderstanding you).

No, it only shows the referring ip

[Craig Cabrey]

No, it only shows the referring ip

Try going to it from the server using links.

[thomasch]

http://whatismyip.com/ will reveal your adsl WAN side IP address (IP address assigned by your ISP).

google "php screen scraper" to find script to extract this IP address from the web page.

thomasch