A less cluttered whatismyip

by bmckim • 14 years ago

25 53 14 years ago

I 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• 14 years ago

If you have a command line and curl handy:

    curl http://ifconfig.me/

mikegirouard• 14 years ago

You 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• 14 years ago

I tend to use ` curl -s http://wtfismyip.com/text ` mostly because it is easy for me to remember.

ing33k• 14 years ago

definitely handy

thejosh• 14 years ago

Yeah, been using this more and more. Super handy website.

scjr• 14 years ago

This is what I use

    https://www.google.com.au/?q=my%20ip

cynwoody2• 14 years ago

A 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• 14 years ago

http://icanhazip.com

chimeracoder• 14 years ago

FYI, if you use DuckDuckGo, just searching 'ip' will do the trick as well.

Much faster than remembering any other domain name for me.

isbadawi• 14 years ago

This also works in Google.

cynwoody2• 14 years ago

DDG got my IP and my town right. I'm impressed. Most of the IP location servers are one town over or just punt and say Boston.

owendbybest• 14 years ago

From a shell, here's the shortest form that I can actually remember:

   curl ifconfig.me

jakejake• 14 years ago

I got http://www.ipchicken.com/ stuck in my brain several years ago and I just go there on auto-pilot for some reason.

whalesalad• 14 years ago

I've been using this for... Wow 8 years now. It's stuck in my head too ;)

nacs2• 14 years ago

This 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..

geuis3• 14 years ago

Or, http://jsonip.com. Now serving over 10 million requests a month.

bmelton• 14 years ago

jsonip.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.

nacs2• 14 years ago

Love their "About" page linked from the homepage JSON: http://jsonip.com/about

Nice "Hire-me" true key in there.

geuis3• 14 years ago

Thanks nacs. I actually should make that false, since I recently started working with a new startup.

smarx• 14 years ago

Just because I had to: http://ip.webscript.io

Complete source code:

    return request.remote_addr

__david__• 14 years ago

Seems everyone has written one, me included: http://kill.porkrind.org:3141/

RealGeek• 14 years ago

I use http://www.google.com/search?q=ip

Just search for IP in browser search bar.

lucb1e3• 14 years ago

That used to work here, but not anymore.

hhaidar• 14 years ago

It's working for me (Canada).

jango2• 14 years ago

if it doesn't work, try googling: ip address (search for "ip" doesn't return my public ip but search for "ip address" does)

gdamjan• 14 years ago

Here's a nginx config and SSI page to do the same https://gist.github.com/1678779

even supports json and jsonp

X-Istence2• 14 years ago

I 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.

lucb1e3• 14 years ago

I'm with you on this. They aren't worthy of the name without IPv6 support.

foundbobby3• 14 years ago

http://uripis.com (uses whatever is default, or http://ipv4.uripis.com and http://ipv6.uripis.com to force ipv4/6 :)

geuis3• 14 years ago

jsonip.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.

p1mrx2• 14 years ago

Here: 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-Istence2• 14 years ago

I really don't care about retrieving my IP address using curl ... it is in my browser that I care about.

Yes, test-ipv6.com works, but it is far some simple, running various other tests as well.

ssapkota• 14 years ago

ifconfig.me is my personal best. The reason is: http://ifconfig.me/#cli_table

alayne• 14 years ago

4 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.

danilocampos2• 14 years 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.

ashastry• 14 years ago

http://whatismyip.io/ gives a nice sharable URL.. ps: I am one of the developers

asdfaoeu• 14 years ago

You should collect the useragent and whatever else you can grab. A url to share just a IP seems useless.

dacort2• 14 years ago

Why not: http://checkip.dyndns.org - About as plain as you can get.

cypherpunks01• 14 years ago

http://whatismyip.akamai.com - slightly plainer :)

dacort2• 14 years ago

Touché

danilocampos2• 14 years ago

For one thing, the one submitted is instantly readable on mobile – the one from dyndns isn't.

usmanity• 14 years ago

There'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• 14 years ago

I tend to use http://myip.is/ because it's the shortest url for these things that I know of and an intuitive url at that too.

lockhead• 14 years ago

I use myip.dk because they also show IPv6 address if you have one...

bmckim2• 14 years ago

It is open source and taking pull requests here - https://github.com/brookemckim/internetaddress.me

bmckim2• 14 years ago

Now has json(p), XML, and text options.

foundbobby3• 14 years ago

http://uripis.com is another good one.

foundbobby3• 14 years ago

Also there's http://ipv4.uripis.com and http://ipv6.uripis.com to force ipv4/6

apathetic• 14 years ago

tango down.

A less cluttered whatismyip

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