[nflug] need idea

[Darin Perusich]

why not just have the cron job that runs email you the info from 
ifconfig? assuming that your clients are using unix routes then 
"ifconfig -a |mail peter at thecybersource.com" should send you that info 
your looking for.

Cyber Source wrote:
> Hello All,
>  I need an idea where I can find the originating IP of an email. I 
> monitor alot of my clients servers, etc. and I have the cron jobs and 
> such email me, which I have filters for and then sort them by who they 
> are so things are organized. I also like to be able to help my clients 
> out from time to time and ssh in to do things and I would like to not 
> have to tell them to do a /sbin/ifconfig or if they are behind a router, 
> to go to my web site and then I have a look at /var/log/httpd/access.
>  For most of my clients, if I look at the message headers of the cron 
> emails, I can see the IP and then use that to log in, mostly cable dhcp 
> clients. However, I am finding more and more dsl dhcp clients to be a 
> problem because not only do they change alot (and normally not a problem 
> because each day has a new email) but when I look at the dsl clients 
> message headers I see something like this
> 
> Return-Path: <root at thecybersource.com>
> Received: from localhost.localdomain 
> (pool-71-251-164-250.bflony.east.verizon.net [71.251.164.250])
>     by thecybersource.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k1K9AHeL024738
> 
> If this were cable, the ip would be 71.251.164.250 but this does not 
> seem to work with dsl, it is not reporting the actual ip that the client 
> used when the box sent the email.
> 
> So, I am looking for a way to have a cron run or something on the box 
> that can send me a daily email showing the public ip they are using. I 
> initially thought of doing a cron that could do a traceroute but I that 
> doesnt work either. I don't know if something has changed on routers 
> today to block such a process but when I use traceroute today, alot of 
> it just times out with multiple ***.
>  Anyway, ideas anyone?
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Darin Perusich
Unix Systems Administrator
Cognigen Corp.
darinper at cognigencorp.com
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