Public ip address

[Brian Yennie]

If what you really like is the functionality of www.whatismyip.com, you 
might consider just hosting your own CGI script somewhere. It could 
literally be a one-liner... pretty much any server-side scripting 
language (including xTalk) can check an environment variable or call a 
function to return the remote IP making the request.

- Brian

>> Hello Alex,
>>
>> We have to maintain a radio stations network running our automation 
>> software,MacBroadcast*, via Timbuktu. To take the control of a 
>> distant computer, PC or Macintosh, we have to know the public IP 
>> address to connect to that computer and do our job. Since the IP 
>> address provided by the ISP is not permanent, I want to write a 
>> simple code which once an hour, is able to send us the actual IP 
>> public address of every radio station. (Some of them have a fixed IP 
>> Address which never change but the cost of this solution is about 20 
>> $ per month.)
>> Using solutions like DynDNS which is supposed to translate the IP 
>> address to a fixed one is not a secure solution.
>> I want to do what www.whatismyip.com is able to do.
>> The solutions suggested by this list are just able to return the lan 
>> ip address.