NYCPHP Meetup

[David Krings]

Michael Hernandez wrote:
> Since we're OT here, I'll throw in that if your IP does change, but
> doesn't change often, dyndns gets mad and cancels your account for not
> updating enough. What I did to get around that is write a shell script
> that checks whatismyip.com (via it's automation specific page) and if
> the IP of the machine has changed, my script emails me to tell me.

There are plenty of clients that send an update once a month to keep dyndns 
happy. But sure, you can write your own.