How to tell IP address of remote machine?

[Timothy Murphy]

Mikkel wrote:

>>> You could download ddclient and change the config to mail all
>>> messages to you.
>> 
>> Thanks, I'll look at that.
>> But would that give me the remote IP address?
>> 
> If it does not already have a configuration for it, you can modify
> one of the configurations to get the information from your
> router/modem. What it is designed to do is get the "real" IP
> address, and forward it to one of the dynamic DNS services. But all
> you need is the get the IP address part, and the mail messages part.

Sorry, I was being stupid.
I am actually running ddclient to send my IP address to dyndns.com .
I guess I could look at the code for this
and run it to post the IP address to me.

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