Re: Script to Notify of Public IP Change

[Kenosis]

marto makes a good point about asking the ISP about whether a static or dynamic IP is provided. In the meantime, perhaps something like the following would be helpful:

#!/usr/bin/env perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use LWP::Simple;
use Regexp::Common qw/net/;

my $ip;

for ( 0 .. 9 ) {
    chomp( $ip = get('http://ip-addr.es/') );
    last if defined $ip and $ip =~ /$RE{net}{IPv4}/;
    sleep 1;
}

...

[Arkevius]

There seems to be a much faster response time (at least for me) with that address than with the one I currently use. I may very well substitute that bit of code with yours. Thank you for the contribution. I do agree with marto that the best solution would be talk with the ISP. However, in the interest of continuing my experience and learning of Perl, I went with the script, at least for now. I just wanted to clear up the cause of the blank address, which seems to just be an error in parsing the address.