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 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:
A simpler and easy to memorize alternative:
curl ifconfig.meThat still relies on an external website, whereas dig uses just DNS
I saw it used in another comment, and am already aware of the use of curl for such a task, but choose to query DNS services instead—especially in scripts.
Why? What advantages do you get?
In order to connect to a site like wtfismyip.com you have to do a dns query for the IP address of the server, then query the http port on that IP address, but what if instead, that first dns query gave the answer to your question?
I worry less about the service breaking, changing, or otherwise disappearing, over a random website.
EDIT: Also what was said in a sibling comment.