Getting local IP address...

[Stephen Hansen]

> On the bright side, generally it's not necessary to know your own
> IP address.  I'm curious why we are seeing this question so often,
> what are folks doing out there?


    Actually, my need has nothing to do with an application -- it
is to answer a question i'm curious about.

    My cable internet provider, Road Runner, does not supply static
IPs to its customers as  a matter of policy... that way there's something
for them to upgrade to, y'know... I'm wondering just how often the IP
is shuffled -- my current one looks terribly familiar :) So I put up a log
program to check periodically (daily) and see what my IP is, then
record it. So far, after a week and a /major/ system outage due to an
upgrade, i'm still using that terribly familiar one. :)

    I'm not going to mail and ask them because my experience with the
bosses at RR is that they tend to be rather dumb, and I don't want them
to think about it anymore then they have to if they happen to nto be
expiring :)

    For instance, Road Runner Tampa Bay blocks, as a matter of policy,
all incoming data on port 25 to stop spam.... :)

--Stephen




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