Comment 15 for bug 307170

Hi Shirish Agarwal

On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 07:42:07PM -0000, Shirish Agarwal wrote:
> Now what I'm trying to do is not get the IP from the local interface
> but from the websites ""www.getmyip.org whatismyip.org" but not getting it :(
>
> I went to Preferences and in interfaces deleted eth0 and just let
> ""www.getmyip.org whatismyip.org" therein.
>
>
> I am using dhcp. Perhaps a look at my ifconfig will tell you what I mean.
> [ ... ] ifconfig output

Exactly also why I retrive the IP from external sites. First to avoid
some "external pitfall", could you check, what your result is, when
you open http://whatismyip.org in a browser? Does it shows correctly
your IP or some error message? If it shows an error message, please
check if your update-interval of giplet is set below 10 minutes
(whatismyip.org does not like it to have a to shorten refresh rate
from the same ip ...)

A possible error you would get, can be the following "Error: 4
requests received from your IP address in the last 60 seconds (current
max is 3 but automated agents should not query more often than once
every 10 minutes)"

So if this is not the cause I will forward your bugreport upstream
directly to Lyman Li (the developer of giplet).

> You could also try putting up 0.2.0 if you want and I can take a spin at
> it.

I just uploaded 0.2.0 to my PPA for intrepid so you can also test this
version.

Hope we could resolve your issue soon,
Kind regards
Salvatore