I know that a lot of VPN users have it as a homepage to their browser, that is why I wanted to publish this warning.
You can replace it with:
I use thiscomputer.info
It’s just text. It shows a bit more than just your IP. And it’s easy to remember.
For us Linux users (BTW), this wtfismyip script just dumps a text string. Just save it to /usr/local/bin or some other location in your path and make it executable, and install the lynx text www browser if you don’t have it installed already.
There are a lot of ways to do this, but this works and I’m lazy…
root@tux:~# cat $(which wtfismyip) #!/bin/bash printf "%s\n" "Your fucking IP address is $(lynx -dump -nolist http://wtfismyip.com/text)."root@tux:~# wtfismyip Your fucking IP address is 13.107.226.41.IP chicken is another option
icanhaz tools:
I have DuckDuckGo set as my default search engine, so I just search for “ip” and Bob’s your uncle
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There is also ifconfig.me which works amazingly on the command like with
curl ifconfig.meAt that point just run ifconfig
That won’t tell you the public IP unless you’re on a directly-connected machine
That’s not how this works. That’s not how any of this works.
exept it does? At least in ipv6 land
i could see a situation where a host that only speaks IPv4 would need to add my IP to an allow list, and therefore I would need to check what IPv4 address I appear as, even though I am running IPv6.
The same works with ipinfo.io, it’s what I usually use.
Awesome, good to know. Nice it has more info in a JSON blob.
This is the one true answer.
Just an IP, nothing else. And easily curlable.
also ip.wtf
Was expecting a robotic voice, is this AI?
It exists before AI was a thing. Just a dude recording himself and making a software that plays it relatively smoothly.
The domain was registered in 2012
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