Duck Duck Go tells you your IP when you ask for it

http://duckduckgo.com/?q=what+is+my+ip%3F

by llambda • 15 years ago

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gunjank• 15 years ago

While Google gives my public IP, Duck Duck Go gives the IP address of my local network, that is behind my office's firewall.

How useful is this IP address?

arethuza• 15 years ago

It definitely only gets the external IP for my work PC here - perhaps your firewall isn't using NAT and you have a public IP address range on your internal network?

sp332• 15 years ago

Unless it's using javascript to show you your own IP, I don't even know how it would be possible for a server on the internet to know your internal IP.

illdave• 15 years ago

Searching Duck Duck Go for "show hn" shows that you can search HNsearch with their !bang syntax: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=show+hn

jrussbowman2• 15 years ago

www.unscatter.com also has slashtags for HNSsearch. /hn, /hnstories and /hncomments all work

http://www.unscatter.com/search/?q=duckduckgo+%2Fhn http://www.unscatter.com/search/?q=duckduckgo+%2Fhnstories&#... http://www.unscatter.com/search/?q=duckduckgo+%2Fhncomments&...

I didn't win, but I added it as an entry for that contest a while back.

Sodaware• 15 years ago

DDG has a lot of short commands like this. There's a list of regular ones here: http://duckduckgo.com/goodies.html (stuff like "is it raining?").

More technical commands are here: http://duckduckgo.com/tech.html (like IP address lookups, whois commands and password generation).

jrussbowman2• 15 years ago

Just checked, the duckduckgo instant answer integration on www.unscatter.com got this by default it appears

http://www.unscatter.com/search/?q=what+is+my+ip%3F

JonnieCache2• 15 years ago

Does anyone know of a site which returns nothing but your IP address in text/plain when hit with a GET request?

Such a thing would be useful for scripting purposes.

llambda2• 15 years ago

http://whatismyip.org

hboon• 15 years ago

http://ifconfig.me/ and useful stuff other than IP address (scroll down)

brador• 15 years ago

A competent programmer could build it in the time it took you to read this.

BitMastro• 15 years ago

A competent programmer should avoid unnecessary complexity as well, I suppose, but you are equally right.

JonnieCache2• 15 years ago

Yes indeed. However this competent programmer has paid work to be doing, and possesses the certain knowledge that such a thing exists already.

Anyway, I'll bite:

    lambda { |env| [200, {'Content-Type'=>'text/plain'}, [Rack::Request.new(env).ip]] }

piers• 15 years ago

http://icanhazip.com

bradleyland• 15 years ago

There's also http://jsonip.com/, which can be useful for scripting.

llambda2• 15 years ago

For some reason this keeps getting flagged: it's disappointing that HN is evidently not willing to allow a counterpoint to a multi-billion dollar search company on the front page; on the one hand there's a submission with 70-some points that shows Google offers this functionality on the other we apparently can't also point out Duck Duck Go is equally capable. Personally I think that Duck Duck Go deserves more attention than it gets.

libria• 15 years ago

By all means, upvote and contribute to the discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3128997.

Personally I think that Duck Duck Go deserves more attention than it gets.

Perhaps this is getting flagged b/c folks see it as promotion/spam?

x0ner• 15 years ago

So does Google?

smoove• 15 years ago

shorter version: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=ip

Duck Duck Go tells you your IP when you ask for it

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