Although this is a far from complex solution, I thought I would post it here to potentially save someone the 2 minutes of typing. Basically, my problem is thus: I have DSL service with a dynamic IP, as well as dynamic DNS. The inside machines are all natted through the router, and have no conception of their own outside addresses. In order to automate any potential change of ip I need my firewall box to know what its external ip is to forward changes to my DNS service. The two ways to get my ip to hand off to the DNS service were A: Log into my router, query it, and parse the output (Dangerous!) and B: Get it from an external source. This is the result of my implementation of plan B.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use LWP::Simple;
use strict;

my $ippage = get 'http://www.eb.com/cgi-bin/IP';

if ($ippage =~ /(\d+)(\.\d+)(\.\d+)(\.\d+)/) {
    print "$1$2$3$4\n"
    }

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In reply to Getting your real external ip from an external source. by descartes

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