[NTLUG:Discuss] Blood from a firewall

[Richard Strittmatter]

Some of the newer firewalls and even firmware for older ones have dyndns
support.
http://www.dyndns.com/
 

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Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 8:18 AM
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Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Blood from a firewall

Tell us what kind of firewall you have.

On 2/13/06, brian at pongonova.net <brian at pongonova.net> wrote:
> Is there any way, a trick perhaps, to get an external firewall to give

> up its WAN address?  I'd like to have my Linux box "phone home" and 
> send new DHCP assignments I get from my ISP to a remote e-mail 
> address, but the problem is figuring out a way to retrieve the new 
> address from the firewall.  I'm sure I could concoct something out of 
> wget and connect to the firewall via HTTP, but I'm looking for simple 
> here.  I thought maybe traceroute might help, but the firewall 
> effectively masks its WAN address.
>
> Or am I looking for blood from a turnip here?
>
>   --Brian
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