Find your public IP address from the command line

by sheetjs • 12 years ago

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jlewallen• 12 years ago

sheetjs• 12 years ago

Woah this is even more intense!

http://ifconfig.me/host for the hostname is a great option I wished curlmyip.com had

sinaa• 12 years ago

Zash• 12 years ago

Bah, no IPv6 :(

thomersch_• 12 years ago

You only need that if you are behind a NAT and on IPv6 there is no NAT. Simply use ifconfig.

stock_toaster• 12 years ago

wtfismyip.com/text is the only one I can ever remember when I am on a terminal. For some reason it sticks in my head.

prefixing with ipv6 or ipv4 works nicely too.

lozf• 12 years ago

I like the extra detail from

      curl ipinfo.io

particularly if using Tor or a VPN, but

      dig +short myip.opendns.com @208.67.222.222

is usually quicker than anything curl / wget based, as it doesn't use http. You can substitute `host` if `dig` isn't available.

kevinwallace• 12 years ago

These are my favorites, because they seem less likely to disappear in the future:

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