Does the White Russian 0.9 DynDNS client suck just as much?
John Abreau
jabr at blu.org
Fri Jun 15 11:51:33 EDT 2007
On Fri, June 15, 2007 11:03 am, Thomas Charron said:
> On 6/15/07, Stephen Ryan <stephen at sryanfamily.info> wrote:
>> Actually, that gives the IP address of this machine, not the IP address
>> of the router, which, given that it's IP address might change, is quite
>> likely doing address translation before hitting the public internet. In
>> the case of my home network, running through some cheap consumer-grade
>> Netgear job, the only way to find out the public IP address is to scrape
>> some web page, and whatismyip.com is probably the easiest one to get at.
>> It's certainly easier than getting the password-protected front page the
>> router serves up!
>
> *Psssst* White Russian runs on the router. :-)
>
> --
> -- Thomas
Actually, the "router" to the ISP is the cable or DHL modem,
not the wrt54g.
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