* DNS or IP ident
@ 2002-03-12 22:12 Wes Groleau
2002-03-12 22:21 ` Wes Groleau
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From: Wes Groleau @ 2002-03-12 22:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
Looking for apps for Windows XP and Mac OS X
that when double-clicked, will display the
user's IP address on screen, OR will identify
the host to DNS. Or both.
This is for a first-time computer user on
dialup DHCP to receive services from a tech
support person.
Tech support can push assistance to the client,
but only if the client provides an IP address
or a name for DNS lookup.
Not very picky about implementation,
but would _prefer_ compilable Ada source
(other language and/or precompiled is OK)
and for the DNS option, would prefer to
read the hostname from a config file,
but a GUI for input is OK.
--
Wes Groleau
http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau
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* Re: DNS or IP ident
2002-03-12 22:12 DNS or IP ident Wes Groleau
@ 2002-03-12 22:21 ` Wes Groleau
2002-03-12 23:59 ` Adrian Knoth
2002-03-14 6:00 ` Will
2 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Wes Groleau @ 2002-03-12 22:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
I wrote:
> Looking for apps .... identify
> the host to DNS. ....
I know about http://www.dns2go.com and
that would be fine except that to use it,
one must agree to accept what most would
otherwise consider large amounts of spam.
--
Wes Groleau
http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau
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* Re: DNS or IP ident
2002-03-12 22:12 DNS or IP ident Wes Groleau
2002-03-12 22:21 ` Wes Groleau
@ 2002-03-12 23:59 ` Adrian Knoth
2002-03-13 13:57 ` Wes Groleau
2002-03-14 6:00 ` Will
2 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Adrian Knoth @ 2002-03-12 23:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
Wes Groleau <wesgroleau@despammed.com> wrote:
> Looking for apps for Windows XP and Mac OS X
> that when double-clicked, will display the
Symbolic link (how is it called in m$-term?) to winipcfg. The current
IP is shown. I don't know whether this tool is still in XP, in 9x it is.
> This is for a first-time computer user on
> dialup DHCP to receive services from a tech
> support person.
Other approach: let the user visit a website. This could be done by
an icon on the desktop. Let this website be user-specific. Take a
look at your server-log and this is the IP.
Other stupid approach: guide the user to http://adi.thur.de, hope he's
not using a proxy and let him tell you the IP shown at the bottom :)
Way #2342: Write your own crippled client-server-app. It is nothing
more than opening a socket and the server should tell you the remote IP.
> Tech support can push assistance to the client,
Ask for physical address, I guess this would be faster :) (knowing those
ugly remote-telephone-support-talks)
BTW: What's wrong with dyndns? I'm also using it but there is nothing
like spam. Do you need to register with a valid email-address? Does
it have to be a human address? Ask your local sendmail-admin to
provide trash@yourdomain.com as a direct link to /dev/null.
--
mail: adi@thur.de http://adi.thur.de PGP: v2-key via keyserver
Was passiert wenn ich... #%(!%#%#@@%$#*^@(@#$!#*$NO CARRIER
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* Re: DNS or IP ident
2002-03-12 23:59 ` Adrian Knoth
@ 2002-03-13 13:57 ` Wes Groleau
0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Wes Groleau @ 2002-03-13 13:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
> Way #2342: Write your own crippled client-server-app. It is nothing
> more than opening a socket and the server should tell you the remote IP.
Thanks, Adrian. I could end up doing that, but
I was trying to avoid doing something that (may
have been) already done. Your other suggestions
sound good, and I will study them further.
"Tech support" is me and my iMac and OS X....
The "client" is my 71-year-old father who got conned into buying
Windows XP for the first computer he ever had. He doesn't
type, has no practice with a mouse, and doesn't know "window"
from "rectangle on the screen with stuff inside." Considerable
confusion reigned for a few minutes when I said cursor (meaning
text insertion point) and they thought I meant "the little arrow
that moves when you move the mouse." They finally downloaded
their e-mail last night after having the computer for four weeks
and being on the phone with me for seven plus hours (not all at once).
By the way, they have a supposedly new Earthlink account,
they've only given the address to less than ten close relatives,
they've sent out e-mails only to those relatives, yet their first
download was 65 messages, sixty of them porno or get-rich spams.
But I'm wondering off of our Ada topic.....
--
Wes Groleau
http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau
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* Re: DNS or IP ident
2002-03-12 22:12 DNS or IP ident Wes Groleau
2002-03-12 22:21 ` Wes Groleau
2002-03-12 23:59 ` Adrian Knoth
@ 2002-03-14 6:00 ` Will
2 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Will @ 2002-03-14 6:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
http://www.geocities.com/wv9557/
Wes Groleau <wesgroleau@despammed.com> wrote in message news:<3C8E7D33.7988C01E@despammed.com>...
> Looking for apps for Windows XP and Mac OS X
> that when double-clicked, will display the
> user's IP address on screen, OR will identify
> the host to DNS. Or both.
>
> This is for a first-time computer user on
> dialup DHCP to receive services from a tech
> support person.
>
> Tech support can push assistance to the client,
> but only if the client provides an IP address
> or a name for DNS lookup.
>
> Not very picky about implementation,
> but would _prefer_ compilable Ada source
> (other language and/or precompiled is OK)
> and for the DNS option, would prefer to
> read the hostname from a config file,
> but a GUI for input is OK.
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