get my wan IP

berrance · 04-28-2009, 12:51 PM

i am writing a script to change the ip address in bind based upon my wan ip, but how can I get the IP displayed as just the ip. Normally I would just ping myself but that returns to much info. I just want my wan ip to be displayed when i issue a command.

any help will be much appreciated

berrance

repo · 04-28-2009, 12:57 PM

You could use

Code:

lynx -dump http://www.pcmesh.com/ip-check.cgi | awk '/REMOTE_ADDR/{print $2}'

berrance · 04-28-2009, 01:14 PM

Code:

curl -s checkip.dyndns.org|cut -d ":" -f2|cut -d "<" -f1

done it this way but i need to sent the result as a variable havnt done this for a while so i cant remember

berrance · 04-28-2009, 01:27 PM

ah ah

found out where i was going wrong I was putting

PHP Code:



wandip='command'

instead of

PHP Code:



wanip=`command`

The quotes in the second line are not apostrophes but single quotes