Linksys Router & Python

[Cliff Wells]

On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 14:38 -0700, Josiah Carlson wrote:
> Cliff Wells <clifford.wells at comcast.net> wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 11:31 -0700, Josiah Carlson wrote:
> > 
> > > Some linksys routers offer support for dynamic hostnames via no-ip.org
> > > or dyndns.org.  That is, they connect to the dynamic dns server, tell it
> > > "hey, I'm now ip address ...", and within about 5-10 minutes, the rest
> > > of the world knows it.
> > 
> > There's also a plethora of scripts (several of them in Python) that do
> > the equivalent.  dyndns.org has a listing of many of them.
> 
> Then we get back to the chicken and egg problem; the original poster
> doesn't want to run their main computer all weekend, and was considering
> running a Python script on the router to notify himself that the IP had
> changed.

True, but who ever answers the OP's question on c.l.py?  My impression
has always been that OP's are just there for starting long OT threads
about more interesting things <wink>

Cliff

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Cliff Wells <clifford.wells at comcast.net>