Detecting a change of IP address in Linux

Question

Does anyone know a way to detect a change of IP address in Linux. Say I have dhcpcd running, and it assigns a new IP address, is there a way I can get a notification when it

Answer 1

What I thought of was running this script from cron every 10 or so minutes, depending on your link. If I wrote this right, it only nsupdates when there is an IP change, so no undue load is creater on the zone's master server.

#!/bin/bash

OLD_IP=`cat ip.txt`

NEW_IP=`/sbin/ifconfig  | awk -F "[: ]+'{ print $4}'` #adapted from something I got from the internets.

if [ $NEW_IP != OLD_IP ]; then
    nsupdate <commands> #it seems like the keys need to be in the same directory from where nsupdate was called
fi

echo $NEW_IP > ip.txt

exit 0 #not sure if this is necessary

Not tested!