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Title: Forward IP Address at change
Post by: Frank on June 25, 2002, 09:20:23 PM

Hi Folks,

I'm very satisfied with E-Smith since I brought it onto my Home Server.

Now I want to add a "Feature": When ppp comes up and my Server receives an IP Address from my ISP I want to receive an Email at work with the changed IP Address of my Home Server.
 
I do not use dyn.dns, in case of any questions, my website is hosted on the ISP's Server, I fetch my mails from the pop- boxes there and all works beautyful. The thing is, that I can't connect from my office, I have to call my wife and pray that she doesn't shoot the box to hell ;-), btw I bother her meanwhile.

Shouldn't be a big Problem, is it?

Thanx in Advance

Title: Re: Forward IP Address at change
Post by: Guck Puppy on June 25, 2002, 10:50:17 PM

How would the dyndns service be bad for you?

Your website is hosted on the ISP's server, that's fine... are you using the same domain name on your e-smith box that you are using for your website hosted on your ISP's server? e.g.

SME server domain : e-smith.mydomain.com
ISP hosted domain : www.mydomain.com

If you use a "fresh" domain from dyndns.org (e.g. frank.homelinux.org) then you can surely use dyndns without issue and you won't have to worry about getting the new ip emailed to you...

or am I missing something?

G

Title: Re: Forward IP Address at change
Post by: Nathan Fowler on June 25, 2002, 10:51:04 PM

See http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=14069.msg53515#msg53515 for some information the files you want to edit, but basically you would want to insert the mail command in there. I recommend just following the directions in that thread but use the below command:

ifconfig|mail -s "PPP new IP" youremail@yourdomain.com

It's pretty snazzy :)

Nathan

Title: Re: Forward IP Address at change
Post by: Frank on June 25, 2002, 10:57:17 PM

The thing is, the Website is hosted under www.f-arndt.de, which is established since 2000. That was during ISDN + POTS time, for about half a year I run on ADSL and since then I use Linux, former SUSE and BSD, but now I changed to SME. Well, as I now from my old DNS Record Config, my Mailserver had to have a diffrent domain as the website, so I choose for my local Network "farndt.de".

I only use E-smith for proxiing, mail transcieving and routing, I don't wnat to have it turned on all the time.

But anyway, if the box pulls for what reason ever a new IP I want to have that IP mailed to my office, that's all ;-)

Does anyone have a clue how to realize this?Guck Puppy wrote:

Title: Re: Forward IP Address at change
Post by: Nathan Fowler on June 25, 2002, 11:01:33 PM

Frank, make sure you don't miss my post, I've given you the solution :)

Title: Solved great
Post by: Frank on June 25, 2002, 11:52:28 PM

Thanx Folks, that's pretty exactly what I've been lookin' for.

Well done

Title: Re: Solved great
Post by: Nathan Fowler on June 26, 2002, 12:03:50 AM

Anytime, glad to help.

Nathan