Topic: EZ-IPupdate, almost there but issues remail

[Kingnubian]

I have an SMC 7004VBR router and have gotten EZ-Ipupdate to work on my SME 5.6b7 server box but the problem is it sends the internal IP of the SME box, 192.168.2.2, to the DYNDNS service instead of the router IP. How can I get around this. If a script is available to do this can someone supply it with instructions?

[Jon Blakely]

Thats the problem with using a cable/dsl router. Your IP address does not appear on the external eth port of the server.

Dump EZ-IPupdate and use ipcheck.py

Check out http://ipcheck.sourceforge.net.

Also read http://williamsongraphics.com/ipcheckHOWTO.html

ipcheck.py works with dyndns.org and it has an option to get the ip address from
SMC Barricade routers like yours and update the ip address.

Jon

[Kingnubian]

Did as you suggested and with little effort, mostly reading, got ipcheck running from the command line. Now the next challenge is to get it to run as a cron job every 15min. I'm making good headway in that regard as well after making a few mistakes after typing crontab -e. Mostly had to do with getting used to vi. Thganks for the tip!