Sorry if this is not really relevant to stack overflow but I'm sure someone will know the answer.
I have a Mac at home and want the IP address of that network to be sent to a page on my website.
I have port forwarded a program on my Mac and want to access it when I am out and about. I've tried dynamic DNS and have had no luck due to my routers lack of editable settings.
I would really appreciate it if someone knew of a way that I could find out the public IP address of my home network remotely by having it updating on my website, or if this is not possible a service which offers this ability.
Obviously it would be great if this was a free service/ program.
Thanks in advance,
Ed.
just create a bash script that sends to your website. you must be something know about API for your website.
for try this also http://www.noip.com/download?page=mac
You could try http://noip.com.
I think they have a mac tool to do this.
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We can use Ruby and WEBrick to start a local web server, just by
ruby -run -e httpd -- -p 8080 .
I have seen some iPhone / iPad app being able to add a hostname of http://awesome.local:1234 on the LAN, so a local Mac, and other computers can connect to it. How can we do this using Ruby, adding the hostname and add it together, if possible, with WEBrick?
It is not possible to do anything with Ruby to do this, because this is not Ruby's problem. Computers deal with translation of host names to IP addresses in two different ways: hosts file and a DNS query.
hosts file is a way to tell a specific computer what addresses it knows about. You edit the file, put in what name maps to what IP address, and when that computer makes a request to one of those names, it knows who to contact. Since you need to have the record in the client's computer, there is nothing you can do on the server to affect it, which is why no amount of fiddling with Ruby or WEBrick will help. Also, iPhones don't have a hosts file you can edit.
When a computer does not know a name, it asks someone who does. This someone is a DNS server, a sort of smart Yellow Pages for computers. Your computer has a DNS server it is configured to work with; if it does not know, it will ask other DNS servers for the information. Notably, the router of your LAN almost certainly has DNS functionality.
Thus, the normal way to do what you want to is to tell your router which address it should tell everyone when asked about awesome.local. How to do this is both off-topic for Stack Overflow (as it is not a programming problem; you could ask on SuperUser), and impossible to answer without knowing the exact make and model of your router.
EDIT: Given that your example involves an iOS device, there is another answer: : Apple devices use Bonjour to yell their own configuration data at each other. It's not the app doing it, it is iOS. You can install Bonjour on most other operating systems. There is also a Ruby gem that implements Bonjour protocol, dnssd. I have not worked with it, so I can't tell you whether or not it will solve your problem.
I'm currently working on a client project and I get access to files via FTP. Their server is behind a firewall and they're asking me for my IP address, I'm guessing for whitelisting.
Problem is, my IP address is dynamic and it changes quite a lot throughout the day. Is there anyway around this?
Thanks in advance.
The best way to avoid paying for a static IP is to carry on using a dynamic IP address, but use a dynamic DNS provider such as No-IP which you can cause to update every time your IP address changes (routers will often do this for you automatically, or there are Windows / OSX / Linux (such as ddclient) clients). That way, you can just use something like magpie.no-ip.com instead of an IP address and it will always resolve to your public address.
You can find the whole answer here: https://superuser.com/questions/455226/can-you-configure-dynamic-to-be-static-yourself-without-changing-your-isp
about 6 months ago I got into coding, and I've always wanted to start my own game just for fun on the side.
I have wampserver on my computer, and was wondering if that server could publicly host things on the internet?
You need to:
Make sure your server is available on the internet. If you have a router or firewall you may need to open it up.
If you want to have a domain name you need to register that.
If your ISP can give you a static IP address then ask for that.
Whether you have a static IP or a dynamic one then you can use a service such as DynDNS to link the domain name to the IP address.
Yes, you can use your WAMPserver to allow people to publicly access your site.
From some quick googling, I didn't find any instructions, just that it was possible.
I just put a wamp server up on a box in my house just for funsies.
Here is a wampserver forum post with links to the info you seek.
Here is the basic rundown though:
Open up your router to port 80 and forward it to the box you are serving on.
Get setup on a DNS server, I used freedns.afraid.org.
In wamp you are gonna set apache to use virtual hosts (this is in the link).
After that you should be cool.
I can get here, but no one at work using our proxy can seem to get to MSDN.
Our Network Administrator has no clue. He said if I could figure it out, he'd fix it. He thinks it is because the ISA Server is too old to understand Microsoft's newer HTML technology.
This is normally a DNS problem.
If it is just this site, it may be that the address to MSDN is registered incorrectly in a HOSTS file or the internal DNS.
For other possibilities see: http://forums.isaserver.org/m_2002006838/mpage_1/key_/tm.htm#2002006915
Are there any errors in the ISA logs? ISA should be able to handle these websites.
I have a strange problem, I just installed my php web site on a shared hosting, all services were working fine. But after configuring my app I just could visit my web site only once, other attempts gives:
"The server is taking too long to respond.".
But from other IP i can access, but only once, it seems all ip addressess beeing blocked after first visit(even ftp and other services get down, no access at all from the IP), can anyone help to explore this problem ? I don't think that it's my app problem, the app works fine on my local PC.
Thanks.
First thing to try would be a traceroute to determine where your traffic is being blocked.
In a windows command prompt:
tracert www.yoursharedhostingserver.com
At the moment, trying to access this address gives this:
Fatal error: Class 'mainController'
not found in
/home/myicms/public_html/core/application/crApplication.class.php
on line 181
I have tried it multiple times and it didn't block me. It might be that You have already solved this problem.
As far as I know, the behavior described by You could only be explained by a badly configured intelligent firewall. It may have been misconfigured by Your host.
If You visit a site at a certain host and suddenly You cannot access an ftp on this host, then it's either a (really bad) firewall or a (very mean) site that explicitly adds a firewall rule to ignore that address.
Some things that You might look into:
It might be something with identd too. What was the service You have configured on Your host? Was it by any chance any kind of server-controll panel (that might have an ability to controll a firewall)?
Is the blockade permanent, or does it go off after 24h, or does it only go off after rebooting the server? Does restarting some services makes the blockade go off?
Did You install any software that "protects Your server from portscanning"? It might be a bit too aggressive.
I wish You good luck in finding a source of this problem!
Chances are that if you can access it once that its actually working. The problem is more than likely in the php code than in the server.