[nycphp-talk] Is PHP a good choice for automating network monitoring?
ophir prusak
lists at prusak.com
Wed Sep 15 09:26:17 EDT 2004
Looking over the dyndns list of IP updating clients:
http://www.dyndns.org/services/dyndns/clients.html
I noticed that one of them is written in PHP :)
Ophir
Daniel Krook wrote:
>>I'm savvy enough to configure
>>an SSH server on the machine locally and configure the router over
>>there to let requests from the Internet through, but I obviously can't
>>figure out where that computer is unless I call my parents and direct
>>her to whatismyip.com.
>>
>>
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>Meitar,
>
>Is there any reason that you're not considering a free dynamic DNS
>provider such as noip.com or dyndns.com for this task?
>
>You can get a "static" hostname that is always tied to your dynamic IP
>with these services. In essence, they provide you with a downloadable
>client that regularly pings their servers to check in with your current IP
>address. For an annual fee, you can tie one of your own registered
>domains to their nameservers as well.
>
>It seems worth checking out before writing a PHP client to do something
>similar.
>
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>Daniel Krook, Application Developer
>WW Web Production Services North 2, ibm.com
>1133 Westchester Avenue, White Plains, NY 10604
>
>Personal: http://info.krook.org/
>Persona: http://w3.ibm.com/eworkplace/persona_bp_finder.jsp?CNUM=9A9796897
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