my dynamic dns client

I run linux on my home PC and wanted to access my home machine when ever and where ever , but i don't have a static ip as i have a bsnl data one connection ... so i was looking for options .

initially i wrote a small script that sends me an email periodically every 4 hours or so .And i used to check my mails to know my machine IP . Then thought of using dyndns.

I started exploring that . i have registered an account and installed the recommended ddclient in ubuntu and it was throwing some error like "caught SIGTERM; exiting " .

so started writing a small script for myself . all this script does is runs periodically to check if the ip of my machine has changed and update dyndns.org if there is a change . i have been running this for a month now and had no issues .

it was fun developing it and its simple to use . no complications . hope it will be useful to others .

You can download it from here.

Quick Hack : P2P block on IPCop 1.4.15

I was trying to install P2P block v 2.5 on ipcop version 1.4.15 and it was not allowing me to do so
as p2p block was written to work for the following versions 1.4.8 to 1.4.11 .... and i found a quick hack for this and wanted to share with every one ..

Step 1 : login to ipcop using ssh and #vi /var/ipcop/general-functions.pl

Step 2 : change this line $General::version = '1.4.15'; to $General::version = '1.4.11';

Step 3 : tar xvzf p2pblock_ipcop_1.4.11.tar.gz

Step 4 : cd p2pblock

Step 5 : ./install

Step 6 : after the installation is successful please revert the General version back to 1.4.15
#vi /var/ipcop/general-functions.pl
#$General::version = '1.4.15';

and you are all set .. hope this is helpful :)

--CS