Create a listening socket in PHP ?

[127.0.0.1]

How does one go about creating a listening socket in a PHP script.

I'm trying to work out a way of finding out my IP address (dynamic,
behind NAT) and I can't use the normal http idea to get it (due to
stuff proxy by ISP).

SO what I thought was to write a protected PHP script which listend for
ONE request on that port - and send back the IP bound on that port.

So from my linux box I would:

1. GET http://xyz.com/wait.php?port=2002
2. telnet xyz.com 2002

Thus geting my IP address ...

Any ideas ?

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[Luke Ross]

Hi,

127.0.0.1 wrote:

How does one go about creating a listening socket in a PHP script.

I'm trying to work out a way of finding out my IP address (dynamic,
behind NAT) and I can't use the normal http idea to get it (due to
stuff proxy by ISP).

SO what I thought was to write a protected PHP script which listend for
ONE request on that port - and send back the IP bound on that port.

So from my linux box I would:

1. GET http://xyz.com/wait.php?port=2002
2. telnet xyz.com 2002

Thus geting my IP address ...

Any ideas ?

Why not just look at the X-Forwarded-For: and Via: headers?

Luke

[127.0.0.1]

Luke Ross wrote:

1. GET http://xyz.com/wait.php?port=2002
2. telnet xyz.com 2002

Thus geting my IP address ...

Any ideas ?

Why not just look at the X-Forwarded-For: and Via: headers?

This isn't an e-mail issue ... I want to write a script that runs on my
home linux box that finds out the IP address to send to the DNSMadeEasy
folk and my DDNS entry there.

I'm finding it absolutely amazing that there is no easy way of doing
that... so I am trying out other ways ... including PHP.

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[127.0.0.1]

Luke Ross wrote:

Thus geting my IP address ...

Any ideas ?

Why not just look at the X-Forwarded-For: and Via: headers?

It is a translucent proxy, I don't actually have an IP address for the
proxy in a reliable fashion, and the proxy doesn't reliably pass on my
IP address. Also - the headers will tend to have my private-ip address
in them anyway.... not the public IP which is the one I want to find
out.

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