Shoutbox

Good job!
Anyway a site that displays external ip is
www.ipchicken.com

Luca

Looks good.

Too bad I'll have to wait for the function to specify the IP yourself.

But I have a suggestion; I've seen the info that's being sent in the chat window, and I must say I don't realy like the fact that it just shows your IP, so It'd be nice if the IP would be sent as an encrypted line of text, or maybe as a long IP, so the avarage n00b won't start bragging he has your IP.

screenies?

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Originally posted by Gergith
screenies?

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a shot screen shot (of the problerm)

Someone else made an external ip plugin. I dunno if it works by contacting a site but maybe he could help you?

hey dude nice work..also few things if you are adding an option for manual ip can you do it so that we can add no-ip.com dns stuff like my ip changes so to remember it i use no-ip.com dNS service which maps my ip to one name so that i dont have to remember the ip address.it would be really awesome if you can implent something that would elt you enter domain names and it will convert to ip so then i will just have hos*******1.no-ip.com in the ip field and whenever the program tries to initiate a connection it will convert that to ip and do it. also out of curosity does it has something to do with the source someone posted abt him making same plugin and he released the sourceof it.thanks a lot for the pluging.

BETA 2 UPDATE

I've added more options to get your IP address.

In the plugin options, select the network adapter address that is connected to the Internet. Then, you have three options:
- Use the adapter's IP address to send files (default setting);
- Use automatic detection to get your external IP address (usually takes 1 or 2 seconds before sending the file);
- Use a manually entered IP or hostname. You can enter here a dynamic IP hostname such as the ones from no-ip.com or dyndns.org.

Also, the setup does not require Windows Installer anymore. To update, just download the new setup package, uninstall the previous .msi setup, close Messenger, install, and run Messenger again.

I hope this update fix the problem with router/NAT users. They should select "automatic detection" or a custom hostname if they already use those dynamic IP services.

The new features from suggestions will be added after the final release for 1.0, so I can remove all current bugs/problems before adding more

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also out of curosity does it has something to do with the source someone posted abt him making same plugin and he released the sourceof it

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No, I've written all the source code for this plugin.

Run the installer, then re-start msn messenger.