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

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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.

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?

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

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.

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).

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

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.

http://whatismyip.org

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

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

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

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]] }

http://icanhazip.com

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

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?

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?

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.

So does Google?

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

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