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I was having some issues involving losing connectivity to a system of mine
due to a dynamic IP. Normally one would just use a dynamic DNS service to
solve the problem, but in this case there were complications that kept that
from being a solution.

So that’s where
Python
comes in. I threw this “solution” (It’s in quotes for a reason) together,
which goes to
my own rudimentary IP-finding site, pulls my address, and returns it to me. Here’s the code:

import urllibimport resite =
urllib.urlopen(“https://danielmiessler.com/ip”).read()grab =
re.findall(‘d{2,3}.d{2,3}.d{2,3}.d{2,3}’,site)address = grab[0]print address

So then in cron.hourly (Gentoo) I can do:

/usr/bin/address | mailx -s “New IP” me@mysecondaddress &>
/etc/cron_output

It’s nasty, but it works. 🙂

[ Jul 15, 2005 ]