fetching the public IP

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fetching the public IP

Closed this issue 10 years ago · 2 comments

The GetIP_SAMPLE_DigIP4 script just grabs the dns record. Doesn't that defeat the purpose of the whole thing? If you have a dynamic IP address, you would still need to run dyndns or similar to populate that DNS record.
Wouldn't it be better to provide a script that finds out the public ip from something like http://whatismyipaddress.com ?

Answer 1 · 2015-01-24T01:26:39.000Z

The GetIP_SAMPLE_DigIP4 script is for if you have a nameserver that you trust, but which you don't want your users to rely on. What you suggest is already done by the other sample script: https://github.com/JeremyRand/DyName/blob/master/GetIP_SAMPLE_ICanHazIP

Answer 2 · 2015-01-24T21:59:48.000Z

Oh, how could I overlook that? Thanks for pointing out.