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25 pointsbmckim55 comments

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.

> 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.

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

Complete source code:

    return request.remote_addr

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

Just search for IP in browser search bar.

That used to work here, but not anymore.

It's working for me (Canada).

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

Oh nevermind, "ip" works. It used to be "ip address" I think, and that doesn't work anymore. Still gotta be on google.com, the .nl version doesn't do it. And of course, google.com redirects to .nl without /ncr...

for me, only "ip address" returned the public ip, search for "ip" didn't... on some national domains, both seem to work... YMMV :)

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

> test-ipv6.com works, but it is far some simple

How about http://ip6.me/ and http://ip4.me/ ?

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

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

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..

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

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.

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

Nice "Hire-me" true key in there.

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

If you have a command line and curl handy:

    curl http://ifconfig.me/

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.

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

definitely handy

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

This is what I use

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

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.

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

Much faster than remembering any other domain name for me.

This also works in Google.

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.

http://icanhazip.com

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

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.

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

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

Touché

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

even supports json and jsonp

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

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

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

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

   curl ifconfig.me

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

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

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

tango down.

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