[Memphis.pm] smc barricade routerand dynamic dns script

[Brock Sides]

* Alaric Ravenhall <alaricravenhall at hotmail.com> [011019 20:02]:

> I've run into an interesting problem I'm going to solve with Perl.
> I have a friend with an ethernet DSL modem and an SMC barricade router. He 
> is running an apache webserver and has a dynamic DNS name - Hn.org.
> He wants to automatically update his DNS with his current IP every hour. No 
> problem with Linux and cron, right? Well... he is behind the router and the 
> hn.org Perl script grabs the ip address of his webserver, which is assigned 
> via DHCP. So, heres's my plan:
> Write a Perl script that pulls the embedded web page from his router and 
> regexes it for the external IP. Store that to a variable, and throw it up to 
> HN.org in the required manner. Schedule it with cron, and BAM!(props to 
> Emeril) issue solved!
> I will probably use LWP:user agent to pull the page from the router. 
> Comments?
> Ravenhall

Sounds like the kind of problem Perl was made to solve. How about
posting your code to the list, so we can take a look at it, and either
(a) learn something, or (b) offer suggestions.

-- 
Brock Sides
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