Re: get my IP address (was Re: Eudora script works, but doesn't (?) (used to be "Re: Scripting in vain - please help :()")
Re: get my IP address (was Re: Eudora script works, but doesn't (?) (used to be "Re: Scripting in vain - please help :()")
- Subject: Re: get my IP address (was Re: Eudora script works, but doesn't (?) (used to be "Re: Scripting in vain - please help :()")
- From: vectormation <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 12:58:49 -0500
IP Addresser
http://software.theresistance.net/
freeware & scriptable
Worked well when I was using it on a cable modem
(I mistakenly said I had used "bluIP"...)
~Phi
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At 09:34 -0800 UTC, on 06/03/2001, Diego C De La Vega wrote:
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> Hi AppleSripters,
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> I received a reply from someone on this mailing list
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> about how to get Eudora to send a copy of my current
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> IP address to an email address of my choice. It seems
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> to work except for one small thing: the IP address
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> seems to be incorrect.
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Geez, if you're gonna complain about such minor details...
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;)
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[Meta]
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[Btw: then why use a Subject header that suggests you're asking about Eudora?
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People please, spend some time thinking about an appropriate Subject header.
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Yes, that can be hard, but who says hard isn't good for you? ;) This list
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sees an awful lot of traffic and I doubt that many people actually read
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everything, so it's for your own good to use descriptive Subject headers.]
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> I tried to use the number to
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> access my computer remotely, and it turns out that the
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> the IP address I was sent is different to the IP
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> Address appearing in the active TCP/IP control panels.
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And so again...
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>> [...] It was hell trying to drive home, writing the new IP
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>> address down and driving back to college, only to find out that the
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>> Internet disconnected and reconnected under a new IP address :( [...]
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;)
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Look, your question seems to be "how to grab the correct IP address", but
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you're not saying anything about how you are grabbing it _now_... Also, since
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scripting possibilities differ per OS version, you're not helping by
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insisting on keeping your OS version a secret. People can shoot from the hip
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and may even accidentally hit something, but they're more likely to hit the
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right target if you provide them with a clear one.
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So, erm.. give it another go ;)
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> All I have here is just a simple connection to
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> the internet via an internal 56K modem.
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OK, that helps, but it's not enough information yet:
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1) Hoe are you grabbing the IP address now?
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2) What OS version are you using?
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HTH
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