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A less cluttered whatismyip
- __david__ 14y agoSeems everyone has written one, me included: http://kill.porkrind.org:3141/ http://kill.porkrind.org:3141/
- RealGeek 14y agoI use http://www.google.com/search?q=ip http://www.google.com/search?q=ip Just search for IP in browser search bar.
- lucb1e 14y agoThat used to work here, but not anymore.
- hhaidar 14y agoIt's working for me (Canada).
- jango 14y agoif it doesn't work, try googling: ip address (search for "ip" doesn't return my public ip but search for "ip address" does)
- lucb1e 14y agoOh nevermind, "ip" works. It used to be "ip address" I think, and that doesn't work anymore. Still gotta be on google.com, the .nl version doesn't do it. And of course, google.com redirects to .nl without /ncr...
- jango 14y agofor me, only "ip address" returned the public ip, search for "ip" didn't... on some national domains, both seem to work... YMMV :)
- hayksaakian 14y agoI think whatismyip is popular due to the fact that the site has a very seo friendly name that's itself the question that the site answers. While internetaddress.me makes sense, the name feels clunky.
- pearkes 14y agoIf you have a command line and curl handy: curl http://ifconfig.me/
- thejosh 14y agoYeah, been using this more and more. Super handy website.
- mikegirouard 14y agoYou beat me to it. ~ curl -s ifconfig.me | wc -l && curl -s internetaddress.me | wc -l 1 59 I think this is a good tool though, but really only from a browser.
- stock_toaster 14y agoI tend to use ` curl -s http://wtfismyip.com/text http://wtfismyip.com/text ` mostly because it is easy for me to remember.
- ing33k 14y agodefinitely handy
- scjr 14y agoThis is what I use https://www.google.com.au/?q=my%20ip
- cynwoody 14y agoA while back, we were using zoneedit.com to keep track of changing DSL addresses at some of our offices. We had a little daemon running that checked the external IP every 15 minutes and shoulder-tapped zoneedit if there was a change. It started failing after a while, and we discovered the external server we were using to query our IP was wigging out. So we googled for some alternatives. None were much good. So we wrote two of our own, one hosted at the company's main site and one at a free Google App Engine site. That was a good move, as both mostly outperform the various freebies out there. Along the way, I wrote a little script to test a bunch of alternative IP sources. Just for fun, I added a version of your Google query to the mix, along with the OP's site, and just reran it, with the following results: $ ip all IP Address Time Bytes Server [cynwoody's IP] 0.217 58 dynamic.zoneedit.com/checkip.html 192.168.1.1 0.197 25545 www.whatismyip.com/ [cynwoody's IP] 0.497 7382 whatismyipaddress.com/ [cynwoody's IP] 0.144 13010 www.hostip.info/ [cynwoody's IP] 0.131 9007 www.ip-adress.com/ [cynwoody's IP] 0.577 14706 ip-lookup.net/ [cynwoody's IP] 0.426 20508 www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm?GetLocation [cynwoody's IP] 0.492 10054 www.melissadata.com/lookups/iplocation.asp [cynwoody's IP] 0.917 22058 www.dnsstuff.com/ end of file 0.120 0 www.ipaddressworld.com/ 1.7.0.0 0.486 18427 www.ip2location.com/ [cynwoody's IP] 0.191 34468 www.find-ip-address.org/ [cynwoody's IP] 0.221 25019 www.iplocation.net/ [cynwoody's IP] 1.040 10776 www.lawrencegoetz.com/programs/ipinfo/ 0.272 0 www.ostrosoft.com/OIT/external_ip.asp 66.249.74.77 0.576 32953 www.google.com/search?q=my+ip [cynwoody's IP] 0.074 1467 internetaddress.me [cynwoody's IP] 0.097 35 www.[cynwoody's company].com/ipaddress.php [cynwoody's IP] 0.110 35 [cynwoody's app].appspot.com/ipAddress $ The Google hack got the wrong IP. I assume the reason is that script is downloading the page and parsing out the first thing that looks like an IP address it comes across, but the part of the Google response that shows your IP bold and clear occurs further down in the result. So, it could be made to work, but would require a less trivial parse. BTW, FWIW, www.[cynwoody's company].com is hosted at FutureQuest. Attaboy FutureQuest! And internetaddress.me did best of all, responding in only 74 ms (I'm located in the Boston area), but one has to wonder what popularity will do.
- dano 14y agohttp://icanhazip.com http://icanhazip.com
- chimeracoder 14y agoFYI, if you use DuckDuckGo, just searching 'ip' will do the trick as well. Much faster than remembering any other domain name for me.
- owendbybest 14y agoFrom a shell, here's the shortest form that I can actually remember: curl ifconfig.me
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- bmelton 14y agoBecause the IP address assigned to the box may not be the IP address it is visible to the outside world on? The output of ifconfig on my mac is dramatically different from what http://jsonip.com/ http://jsonip.com/ is showing me, and for good reason. In addition to standard NATing, if he were on an EC2 instance, the IP addresses are routed to by Elastic IPs, and aren't necessarily visible from the box itself either. Simply put, there are a variety of reasons you wouldn't necessarily want to rely upon the system's local IP address as canon for what others might see it as.
- nacs 14y agoBecause you may be connected through a router that gives you a local IP in ifconfig? Not everyone is connected "directly" to the internet.
- jakejake 14y agoI got http://www.ipchicken.com/ http://www.ipchicken.com/ stuck in my brain several years ago and I just go there on auto-pilot for some reason.
- whalesalad 14y agoI've been using this for... Wow 8 years now. It's stuck in my head too ;)
- nacs 14y agoThis has been my go-to IP checker for years now. There must be something magical about that URL/domain name that keeps me coming back..
- geuis 14y agoOr, http://jsonip.com http://jsonip.com. Now serving over 10 million requests a month.
- bmelton 14y agojsonip.com is the the only one I ever use anymore. In addition to being JSON, which is programmatically friendly, it loads the fastest for humans too.
- nacs 14y agoLove their "About" page linked from the homepage JSON: http://jsonip.com/about http://jsonip.com/about Nice "Hire-me" true key in there.
- geuis 14y agoThanks nacs. I actually should make that false, since I recently started working with a new startup.
- smarx 14y agoJust because I had to: http://ip.webscript.io http://ip.webscript.io Complete source code: return request.remote_addr
- gdamjan 14y agoHere's a nginx config and SSI page to do the same https://gist.github.com/1678779 https://gist.github.com/1678779 even supports json and jsonp
- X-Istence 14y agoI wish a service would provide me with both my IPv4 and IPv6 address... Google hands me back my IPv6/IPv4, internatddress.me hands me back my IPv4, ipchicken IPv4, jsonip IPv4, ip.webscript.io IPv4, ifconfig.me IPv4, wtfismyip IPv4/IPv6, DDG IPv4. And some of them bounce between the two ... I know, I know, happy eyeballs and all that, but it would be handy sometimes to know both my IPv6 address and my IPv4 address.
- lucb1e 14y agoI'm with you on this. They aren't worthy of the name without IPv6 support.
- foundbobby 14y agohttp://uripis.com http://uripis.com (uses whatever is default, or http://ipv4.uripis.com http://ipv4.uripis.com and http://ipv6.uripis.com http://ipv6.uripis.com to force ipv4/6 :)
- geuis 14y agojsonip.com will have this relatively soon. Its been a pain in the ass to setup, much less test. I've tried going through the tunnelbroker tutorials a few times but keep hitting a mental brick wall. I, and perhaps others, need a simple 1-2-3 tutorial.
- lucb1e 14y agoI'm with you on this. They aren't worthy of the name without IPv6 support.
- p1mrx 14y agoHere: http://test-ipv6.com/ http://test-ipv6.com/ It's not possible to determine both your IPv4 and IPv6 address in a way that's compatible with curl or links, however. You need something like JavaScript to issue the second request.
- X-Istence 14y ago
- ssapkota 14y agoifconfig.me is my personal best. The reason is: http://ifconfig.me/#cli_table http://ifconfig.me/#cli_table
- alayne 14y ago4 hour old account. Silly web page that uses 1465 bytes to display an IP address and pull in Google analytics. I don't see why this is HN worthy.
- danilocampos 14y ago> I don't see why this is HN worthy. A 1027 day-old account really should know better than to post this sort of comment.
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- ashastry 14y agohttp://whatismyip.io/ http://whatismyip.io/ gives a nice sharable URL.. ps: I am one of the developers
- asdfaoeu 14y agoYou should collect the useragent and whatever else you can grab. A url to share just a IP seems useless.
- dacort 14y agoWhy not: http://checkip.dyndns.org http://checkip.dyndns.org - About as plain as you can get.
- cypherpunks01 14y agohttp://whatismyip.akamai.com http://whatismyip.akamai.com - slightly plainer :)
- dacort 14y agoTouché
- danilocampos 14y agoFor one thing, the one submitted is instantly readable on mobile – the one from dyndns isn't.
- usmanity 14y agoThere's a CSS issue that made me a bit irritated. The <body> element has a margin of 8px, change that to auto so you won't get an annoying horizontal scroll on webkit browsers.
- Hansi 14y agoI tend to use http://myip.is/ http://myip.is/ because it's the shortest url for these things that I know of and an intuitive url at that too.
- lockhead 14y agoI use myip.dk because they also show IPv6 address if you have one...
- bmckim 14y agoIt is open source and taking pull requests here - https://github.com/brookemckim/internetaddress.me https://github.com/brookemckim/internetaddress.me
- bmckim 14y agoNow has json(p), XML, and text options.
- foundbobby 14y agohttp://uripis.com http://uripis.com is another good one.
- foundbobby 14y agoAlso there's http://ipv4.uripis.com http://ipv4.uripis.com and http://ipv6.uripis.com http://ipv6.uripis.com to force ipv4/6
- apathetic 14y agotango down.