Need to find my public ip address using a script. -- Solved

[1clue]

Hi,

I need to find my public ip address using a script that will go into cron.

I need to update my ddns entry, but the tools provided by the dns provider to update don't support my router. So I need to do the equivalent of googling "what's my ip address" and get an ipv4 address back out.

For the record a wget on google and a few other search engines gets "access denied." I found a site that does let wget grab the address but I'm not sure how long it will last before they block it too.

So if there's some standard way of finding out, I'd love to hear about it.

[Apheus]

[1clue]

Fantastic! Thanks.