I’ve been having some issues with my ISP lately and there have been quite a few public IP changes as my router fails over to the backup cellular modem and back again.
I’ve set up an automated message from the DNS IP sensor to monitor this.
According to the component docs:
This sensor should default to myip.opendns.com
if no hostname is provided. So I did not provide one and the sensor name was sensor.myip
Then the notifications stopped happening and I found the sensor name had changed to sensor.myipopendnscom
so I changed my notification to reflect this and things were monitored well again.
For a while.
Now the sensor name has changed back to sensor.myip
What the heck is going on?
Will it help if I set the hostname to explicity to myip.opendns.com
?
Should I trigger on both sensor names in case it changes again?
EDIT: Actually here’s the problem part of the docs. What happens if there’s no hostname provided (default myip.opendns.com)? Which does it use?
name ( Optional ): Name of the sensor. Defaults to
myip
or hostname without dots if specified.
Im hoping if I explicitly set the hostname to myip.opendns.com I’ll consistently get the second option.