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:
Neat, how can you check IPv6? I was able to get my IPv4 address by querying with an A record, but tried with AAAA which doesn’t respond with an answer.
dig -6 +short @resolver2.opendns.com myip.opendns.com AAAANote: You have to ensure you are actually contacting the server with IPv6.
Ahh yeah, works with
@resolver2.opendns.comso I guess my DNS resolver isn’t supporting IPv6 or something like that?This is a service provided by some DNS hosts, with their own special subdomains, and is not universal. They may also require slightly different options.
Other options include:
Google (query for txt record):
@ns1.google.com o-o.myaddr.l.google.comAkaimai (query for txt record):
@ns1-1.akamaitech.net whoami.akamai.netCloudflare:
@1.1.1.1 whoami.cloudflareCisco (there are four, as far as can tell):
@resolver[1-4].opendns.com myip.opendns.com…and likely others.