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Whats-My-IP-Service without all this crap

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With a heavy heart, I'm deleting my bookmark to http://www.moanmyip.com/

http://whatismyip.org/

A bit easier to spell/remember.

Usually those services tell you your public IP.

This service says my IP is 10.1.3.46, and while technically correct, useless.

Pics or it didn't happen.

How can it give you your private IP address? I'm curious...

Is there a javascript call to list the IP addresses of any machine? That feels very insecure to me.

EDIT: Sorry I forgot to turn on my joke detector.

It probably gets it from the X-Forwarded-For HTTP reader inserted by his intranet proxy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Forwarded-For

Uh, no? Knowing your public IP is valuable information sometimes and you need an external source to tell you that. Knowing your machine's IP is not something you should go to a website to look up, just check your local config.

Thanks for the feedback, it should now display the correct HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR-header if available.

Given that it's a .jp subdomain, it's likely geared towards Japanese. Denisu is a valid shortening of DNS - the characters to spell it in katakana would be デニス, and potentially easier to remember for Japanese than "whatismyip," a fully qualified english query. Unless someone out there who knows more about Japanese than I do (admittedly, very little) can confirm that デニス or でにす is an actual word (google translate detected でにす as a phrase, giving me "su to the," which makes sense grammatically..)

Funny enough, it's also the romanjification of "dennis" (one of the first hits on google for it is dennis rodman's japanese wikipedia article).

I've always been partial to http://ipchicken.com . It's got commercial motives, but it's easy to spell, it's easy to ask people to go to it and have them remember, and the numbers are giant and readable. This is all good!

For some additional crap, check http://www.ipspotting.com/ - also easy to remember and fun in new places.

Now an easy to remember domain name and you're good to go! edit: http://tinyurl.com/givemyip

http://whatismyip.org has an easy-to-remember URL and no crap either.

Ah, but i do find the speed test available at http://www.whatismyip.com/ useful.

I just found this great site giving extensive information:

http://ip-lookup.net/

Or just paste this in a .php file:

<?php print $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; ?>

Then you've got the IP address without any frills.

For you minimalists: http://checkip.dyndns.org/

The full response of which being:

<html><head><title>Current IP Check</title></head><body>Current IP Address: xx.xx.xx.xx</body></html>

That's surely not minimal. What you need is a simple plain-text: xx.xx.xx.xx.

or even better, an easy-to-parse key value pair:

ip=208.128.7.7

I'd contend that "208.128.7.7" is a more minimal, and useful, return value than "ip=208.128.7.7".

"ip=208.128.7.7" would be actually nice if the output would be like:

  ip=208.128.7.7
  location=france
  ua=Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel blah blah

Yes, I agree, especially for shell scripts and such. A service should give me 1) plain text, 2) key value pairs, 3) json, and 4) human readable/copyable output.

plaintext ftw: http://my-ip.heroku.com

http://myip.dk/ is short and simple.

here is another one http://tejji.com/ip/my-ip-address.aspx

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