[NTLUG:Discuss] Blood from a firewall

Terry trryhend at gmail.com
Mon Feb 13 08:17:56 CST 2006


Tell us what kind of firewall you have.

On 2/13/06, brian at pongonova.net <brian at pongonova.net> wrote:
> Is there any way, a trick perhaps, to get an external firewall to give
> up its WAN address?  I'd like to have my Linux box "phone home" and
> send new DHCP assignments I get from my ISP to a remote e-mail
> address, but the problem is figuring out a way to retrieve the new
> address from the firewall.  I'm sure I could concoct something out of
> wget and connect to the firewall via HTTP, but I'm looking for simple
> here.  I thought maybe traceroute might help, but the firewall
> effectively masks its WAN address.
>
> Or am I looking for blood from a turnip here?
>
>   --Brian
>
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