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10.4: Retrieve WAN IP via script and Automator
Authored by: zane on Jun 07, '06 04:34:26PM
As fan of home-made solutions, I like the Applescript/Automator routes, but if want to look at other options, Loopware have a hand little utility, "IP Menu", which will do just what you want. IP Menu places a little icon in your menu bar, which lists both local and external IP. In the preferences you can assign polling intervals, and give it an email address. IP Menu will post you an email any time it detects an IP change.

I used this utility for about 6 months or so a little while ago, for the same purposes as yours, and it never failed me. I haven't been remoting into my home computer as much lately, so just haven't gotten around to re-installing it after my last System re-bless.

The only minor downside I found was that the emails are sent thru Loopware's own servers, you can't tell IP Menu to use your own mail servers. So in other words, you could be potentially furnishing Loopware with your many IP's, for whatever that's worth, but I'm not that paranoid, so I didn't care.

You can download IP Menu from here: http://www.loopware.com/software/

Not quite as fun as the homebrew solutions, but it *does* work, and was reliable for me, for the time I used it.

(I have no affiliation with Loopware, btw)

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