trying to get my external ip

[davepass]

greetings,

I am attempting to use a service like dyndns so that I can access my Debian (woody) box from the outside world. To do so, I need to find out what my external ip address is. I thought running

#ifconfig

would give me this info but all I can see is the static ip I have assigned it for my LAN, 192.168.1.161.

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:30:BD:71:8B:14
inet addr:192.168.1.161 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:32127 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:21782 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:41490509 (39.5 MiB) TX bytes:8850771 (8.4 MiB)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0x9000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:1038 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1038 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:117728 (114.9 KiB) TX bytes:117728 (114.9 KiB)

I have a cable internet connection that uses dhcp. The connection hooks directly to a router with an internal ip of 192.168.1.1, which I set as the gateway for my Debian box. Please let me know if more info is needed about my configuration.

Thanks,

-dave

[loft306]

look in the routers setup for the public ip ! in that setup it is the router that holds the lease with your isp.

[afrolinux]

Here is your external IP.

But one way to do it is using trace route to some external host and looking in the list returned by trace route for the first public IP. This work fine except for some ISPs working with public IPs in their internal network segment.


afrolinux

[davepass]

thanks to both of you.

Unfortunately all I am able to get is the IP of my router (which is what the little penguin told me).

I may not have read through enough of dyndns's documentation, but I think there is a way to point a dyndns host directly to a specific machine...

any thoughts?

[dylunio]

You will have to point the dns to the router's IP, and then set the router to forard the port used to the specific computer;

dylunio

[davepass]

ok now it's making sense.

My problem is that one machine on my network already has port 22 (ssh) forwarding to its internal, static ip (under a different dyndns host name). Does this mean that no other machines on the LAN can use this port?

[afrolinux]

As you can specify to the ssh client the port number

sshclient [-r] [-p port] [-u user] [-h host] [profile.ssh2]

You can dedicate arbitary port on the external IP to be forewarded to your internal host at port 22. The only thing is when you connect you have to do it to the external host and have to specify the external port number.

afrolinux

[davepass]

now i'm confused again

do you mean something like

$ssh -p 55 me@myhost.dyndns.com


Tried this w/port 55 forwarded to 22 and my machine's ip and the connection was refused

[davepass]

my bad. I was forwarding the port incorrectly within the router. fixed it and same line now works.

Thanks for all the help

[afrolinux]

I do not know if is used port 55 for anything else but using some port like 55555 will be safe and may be some day a well known port of you@myhost.dyndns.com.

Regards,

afrolinux