IP address variable

[Anthony E. Greene]

On 16-Feb-2005/10:43 -0600, Bill Gradwohl <bill at ycc.com> wrote:
[about using hostname-i to get IP address]
>
>That's simply listing the contents of /etc/hosts in a stripped down IP 
>only form. Normally that file doesn't contain the "real" IP address of 
>the box.

Okay. This is only useful for boxes with a static IP. Looks like I get to
keep my script.

   http://www.greene-family.org/tony/downloads/getmyip

This script:

 * Outputs the IP address of the specified interface, or

 * if no interface is specified, output the IP address of the
   interface that has a default route set, or

 * if more than one interface has a default route (uncommon,
   and usually an error) then output an error message and quit.

Tony
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