[PLUG] whatismyip.com issues

[wes]

I switched to http://icanhazip.com

I didn't bother signing up for WIMI's lame subscription thing, but if you'd
rather troubleshoot that, send me the info they gave you on how to do
lookups and I'll help you find the problem.

-wes


On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 8:25 AM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>wrote:

>    If I correctly recall a message here from a couple of months ago there
> is
> an alternative to whatismyip for automatically checking for a changed IP
> address. I'm having much difficulty with this site and am stymied in my
> attempts to get help there.
>
>    A couple of days ago I started getting messages every 15 minutes that
> the
> cron script checking whatismyip.com failed to get a new IP address. I
> changed the time the script runs to every 2 hours since that is the new
> free
> lookup limit (12/day). I still get the same script error message.
>
>    Looking at the log I see that whatismyip.com dropped their .asp
> interface
> (I'm guessing that's what it is). When I received the notice of their
> changes a month or two ago I registered with them for the free account and
> 12 lookups per day so I don't know what's not working.
>
>    On their web site I try logging in to their fora but my password is
> constantly rejected. Since I recoreded that password this makes no sense.
> To
> rub salt in my wound, trying to have them send me the password they have
> also fails because, the message box saye, I've given them an e-mail address
> not in their database. Yet, when I try to register again they tell me my
> username and e-mail address are already in their system. Trying to contact
> an adminstrator (their next suggestion) also fails because I need to enter
> my username and password to send the admin a message asking why I cannot
> use
> my username and password. Checkmate.
>
>    Verizon seems to have slowed the frequency of IP address changes so
> every
> 2 hours should certainly be a sufficient interval to check. But,
> whatismyip.com is no longer responding to the cron script nor allowing me
> to
> ask anyone there what broke.
>
>    Suggestions for alternatives are needed.
>
> TIA,
>
> Rich
>
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