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:
ip.me also works well in the terminal with
curl. The default response is plaintext
Glad somebody else posted it. Glad it still exists. Some of the internet is still hilarious and amazing.
There is also ifconfig.me which works amazingly on the command like with
curl ifconfig.meThe same works with ipinfo.io, it’s what I usually use.
Awesome, good to know. Nice it has more info in a JSON blob.
At that point just run ifconfig
That won’t tell you the public IP unless you’re on a directly-connected machine
That’s not how this works. That’s not how any of this works.
exept it does? At least in ipv6 land
i could see a situation where a host that only speaks IPv4 would need to add my IP to an allow list, and therefore I would need to check what IPv4 address I appear as, even though I am running IPv6.
This is the one true answer.
Just an IP, nothing else. And easily curlable.
🤣
Was expecting a robotic voice, is this AI?
It exists before AI was a thing. Just a dude recording himself and making a software that plays it relatively smoothly.
The domain was registered in 2012
Is it malicious code hosted on the website? Or are they saying that visiting that site is an indicator of compromise because they’ve malware commonly visiting that site?
Looks like the domain registration expired, according to https://lookup.icann.org/en/lookup
Fortinet marked the website as “malicious”, but it doesn’t seem to give an explanation as to why it’s been given that classification (looked up here: https://www.fortiguard.com/webfilter)
Kasperky wanted an account (and possibly a subscription) to look up the website and I’m not going to give them any of my information so I’m not sure if they gave an explanation as to why the website is flagged.
Visiting https://thisismyip.com/ as of now just redirects to a Namecheap landing page so I doubt there’s any actual malware on the website. I think Fortinet and Kaspersky preemptively marked it for when a malicious actor picks up the name and starts hosting actual viruses.
Hosted on the website.
I have DuckDuckGo set as my default search engine, so I just search for “ip” and Bob’s your uncle
It’s a good old service, but unfortunately it’s so old that it doesn’t support IPv6 connections
I just checked with curl and it showed me my IPv6 IP
There’s also https://ip4.me/, nice and simple ipv4 test.
(it also does other IP lookups via https://ip6.me/, https://ip6only.me/, https://whatismyv6.com/)
I always use check.torproject.org. If I’m not on Tor, it gives me my IP, if I am on Tor it verifies that. Good for both.
icanhaz tools:
#!/usr/bin/sh dig -4 +short @resolver2.opendns.com myip.opendns.com#!/usr/bin/pwsh Resolve-DnsName -Server resolver2.opendns.com -Name myip.opendns.com -Type A | % { echo $_.IPAddress }There should be an IPv6 resolver, but I don’t remember and am currently unable to test. My PowerShell skills are also effectively non-existent.
A simpler and easy to memorize alternative:
curl ifconfig.meThat still relies on an external website, whereas dig uses just DNS
I saw it used in another comment, and am already aware of the use of curl for such a task, but choose to query DNS services instead—especially in scripts.
but choose to query DNS services instead—especially in scripts.
Why? What advantages do you get?
In order to connect to a site like wtfismyip.com you have to do a dns query for the IP address of the server, then query the http port on that IP address, but what if instead, that first dns query gave the answer to your question?
I worry less about the service breaking, changing, or otherwise disappearing, over a random website.
EDIT: Also what was said in a sibling comment.
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 .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:
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Google (query for txt record):
@ns1.google.com o-o.myaddr.l.google.com -
Akaimai (query for txt record):
@ns1-1.akamaitech.net whoami.akamai.net -
Cloudflare:
@1.1.1.1 whoami.cloudflare -
Cisco (there are four, as far as can tell):
@resolver[1-4].opendns.com myip.opendns.com
…and likely others.
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My goto has always been https://www.whatismyip.com/, or https://www.wimi.com/ for short.
