Foo - Can mods do this?

I need the IP of my computer at home. Can mods look at one of my previous posts and get it for me? Is there a way to get it otherwise. I believe it's something like 79.144.226.48, but when I did tracert on it, that didn't come to the right ISP. I'm trying to rdp in, but I need the correct IP.

Sorry do you want the ip of the post you just posted?...

and yes mods can see a history of ips used :)...

Mods can part the sea! They are stronger than a locomotive, faster than a buiiet, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound......why there is nothing they cannot do......all hail the Mods!!!!

I need the IP of my computer at home. Can mods look at one of my previous posts and get it for me? Is there a way to get it otherwise. I believe it's something like 79.144.226.48, but when I did tracert on it, that didn't come to the right ISP. I'm trying to rdp in, but I need the correct IP.

You could always just go a whoami site. It will tell you your IP.
http://www.hashemian.com/whoami/

http://www.ipchicken.com/

http://www.whatsmyip.org/

how bout you do an IPCONFIG from a dos prompt?
it should tell you where you are.

if not point me to a post with prev address and I'll see if we can figure out where you're
at.

Ok, I just reread what you posted and currently all of your posts show the same IP address (work I'm
guessing). Give me a minute to figure this out.

how bout you do an IPCONFIG from a dos prompt?
it should tell you where you are.


Likely won't work if he is behind a router ;)

You guys misunderstood him. He is not at home right now. He's trying to rdp (i.e. "remote connect") to his home computer from somewhere else, but needs the ip address of his home computer to do so. He cannot use those links, as they are. That's why he's asking if a previous post he's made can be traced back to his home computer.

You guys misunderstood him. He is not at home right now. He's trying to rdp (i.e. "remote connect") to his home computer from somewhere else, but needs the ip address of his home computer to do so. He cannot use those links, as they are. That's why he's asking if a previous post he's made can be traced back to his home computer.

Address of his home computer? What good will that do him? He can get that with ipconfig.

Likely won't work if he is behind a router ;)

Depends if his router is doing NAT or not but probably is. I use to get public IP space from my ISP but it is not so common these days.

Falkon PM on it's way.

Pls don't give meh viruses.

Address of his home computer? What good will that do him? He can get that with ipconfig.If you've ever used Remote Desktop Connection to log in remotely, then maybe you'll understand.


Address of his home computer? What good will that do him? He can get that with ipconfig.
Remember, he is not home right now and have no access to his PC. "ipconfig" only gives you info on the computer you're logged on to.

Depends if his router is doing NAT or not but probably is. I use to get public IP space from my ISP but it is not so common these days.

Most people don't setup nat in the prive networks. At least its pretty rare. Most of the clients I see use a private network with the router getting the public ip

I need the IP of my computer at home. Can mods look at one of my previous posts and get it for me? Is there a way to get it otherwise. I believe it's something like 79.144.226.48, but when I did tracert on it, that didn't come to the right ISP. I'm trying to rdp in, but I need the correct IP.

- since i had dynamic IP on my bellatlantic service a long time ago, i put a simple crontab script on my firewall at home to email the assigned IP address every eight hours... a simple:

/sbin/ifconfig | grep broadcast | mail -s your_ip_addr me@somewhere.com

- worked great, and i was always able to ssh into my home LAN via the firewall from anywhere!

(i'm sure there are much more sophisticated methods/boxen now, but i was using a 130MHz Pentium laptop with two PCMCIA NICs as my firewall, hosting a simple ipfilter ruleset at the time; btw, old notebooks with new batteries make good backup servers with built-in UPS up-times!)

- since i had dynamic IP on my bellatlantic service a long time ago, i put a simple crontab script on my firewall at home to email the assigned IP address every eight hours... a simple:

/sbin/ifconfig | grep broadcast | mail -s your_ip_addr me@somewhere.com

- worked great, and i was always able to ssh into my home LAN via the firewall from anywhere!

(i'm sure there are much more sophisticated methods/boxen now, but i was using a 130MHz Pentium laptop with two PCMCIA NICs as my firewall, hosting a simple ipfilter ruleset at the time; btw, old notebooks with new batteries make good backup servers with built-in UPS up-times!)

It is tough to beat a Linux router/firewall.

Most people don't setup nat in the prive networks. At least its pretty rare. Most of the clients I see use a private network with the router getting the public ip

That sounds a lot like NAT too me.

Thanks lotek. I needed to connect to my home computer from work and I couldn't remember my IP.

Falkon, you might look into a dynamic-DNS system. DynDNS is one, No-IP is another, I'm sure there are lots by now. You can run an updater script as a service that will update the website on your current IP, so that you only have to remotely connect to yourusername.dynamicdns.com or somesuch. Much easier to remember. :)

Falkon, you might look into a dynamic-DNS system. DynDNS is one, No-IP is another, I'm sure there are lots by now. You can run an updater script as a service that will update the website on your current IP, so that you only have to remotely connect to yourusername.dynamicdns.com or somesuch. Much easier to remember. :)

+1 on that. DynDNS can give you a hostname.dyndns.com for free, and if you have a custom domain, you can pay a little bit a year to have all or part of it dynamically redirected.

That sounds a lot like NAT too me.

and if the do ipconfig they will get a private ip not public...maybe we are talking about the same thing

Falkon, you might look into a dynamic-DNS system. DynDNS is one, No-IP is another, I'm sure there are lots by now. You can run an updater script as a service that will update the website on your current IP, so that you only have to remotely connect to yourusername.dynamicdns.com or somesuch. Much easier to remember. :)

cool, I didn't know there were free options out there. Gracias

and if the do ipconfig they will get a private ip not public...maybe we are talking about the same thing

I think we are.

unless you pay for a static address, it may change when the ISP burps the switch

dynamic dns can keep track of it

In some cases, a dynamic DNS system and bouncing IPs may be more secure than a static IP configuration. A friend of mine uses a hardened Linux firewall which, should it notice an incoming DDoS, will immediately drop its existing DHCP lease and grab a new one, then give the new IP update to dyndns.org.