[Novalug] how to ssh into a computer

shawn wilson ag4ve.us@gmail.com
Fri Nov 1 10:53:36 EDT 2013


yeah, akami has similar but i can't remember it. there's also
ifconfig.net - basically, anything that just shoots you back text and
not a bunch of crap is good.

On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 4:52 PM, Joshua Ellsworth <jrellsworth@gmail.com> wrote:
> Here's a good option: http://checkip.amazonaws.com/
>
> On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Ed James <edward.james@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Finding my outward-facing numeric ip address was really easy during
>> my dialup days, and I had written a program to query my system for
>> it, update a .html document, and "push" it to my external website to
>> that a click on that page would connect a user to a game running
>> on my home machine.  Hiding between 3 firewalls makes it sorta
>> problematic now.
>>
>> That google thing is way kewl.  I tried it, and looked at the source
>> code for the page that google returned, hoping to see something
>> easy to parse via code.  Ugh.  It wasn't pretty.
>>
>> However, google "pointed" me at a site:
>>
>> http://checkip.dyndns.org/
>>
>> that returns a one-liner like (I did the edit-thing on my personal ip addy):
>>
>> <html><head><title>Current IP Check</title></head><body>Current IP Address:
>> 99.999.99.999</body></html>
>>
>> Methinks I might re-visit my old program.
>>
>> Ed James
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Mark Smith <mark@winksmith.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 05:07:04AM -0400, Ed James wrote:
>>> > Finding one's outward-facing numeric ip address - I can get
>>> > this off my DSL MODEM's internal website-interface.  Can
>>> > the same thing be done with FiOS?
>>>
>>> on a browser within your home network open google and type:
>>>
>>>         what's my ip address
>>>
>>> and google will tell you....
>>
>>
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