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48 pointsnamidark36 comments

Check out http://ipinfo.io too, which has both an uncluttered website and a simple API, eg:

    $ curl ipinfo.io
    {
      "ip": "67.188.232.131",
      "hostname": "c-67-188-232-131.hsd1.ca.comcast.net",
      "city": "Mountain View",
      "region": "California",
      "country": "US",
      "loc": "37.385999999999996,-122.0838",
      "org": "AS7922 Comcast Cable Communications, Inc.",
      "phone": 650
    }

    $ curl ipinfo.io/geo
    {
      "ip": "67.188.232.131",
      "city": "Mountain View",
      "region": "California",
      "country": "US",
      "loc": "37.385999999999996,-122.0838",
      "phone": 650
    }

    $ curl ipinfo.io/org
    AS7922 Comcast Cable Communications, Inc.
    
    $ curl ipinfo.io/8.8.8.8/org
    AS15169 Google Inc.

More details available at http://ipinfo.io/developers

      "loc": "37.385999999999996,-122.0838",

Did a float creep into the storage system at some point?

I find this really disturbing:

http://ipinfo.io/recent

Might not want to display people's data like that.

What do you mean by "people's" data? It's information about an IP address that is completely public. You could find it by going to ipinfo.io/<any random IP address>, or by using various tools or other websites to look it up.

I think he's talking about the recent IP list itself.

It's the recent accesses by those IP addresses as well. Don't be thick.

It's a sample of IPs that have recently been looked up, which doesn't necessarily mean that IP visited the site or used the API.

I wouldn't use the service as long as recent look-ups were publicised.

@prawn (sorry can't reply directly) - interesting, I didn't think this was a big deal at all. Can you explain your reservations?

The page is actually only there for SEO purposes, so that google indexes these IPs without me having to go to the trouble of building a site map. If there's genuine concerns or issues with that page then I'll kill it.

What's so disturbing about what IPs were looked up on a site?

The only way I find that remotely possibly of any interest is perhaps maybe some of those IPs are slightly more prone to having some sort of public unsecured service. (And uses this API/site to find the public IP.)

Is there an actual legitimate complaint or worry here?

I wouldn't say disturbing but it's definitely a negative smudge on an otherwise useful service.

It just looks like search engine spam really - those sort of ones that appear when you search for an IP address in Google

You should keep adding stuff to this. You're right, with the exception of your IP address, most of this information is crudded up either with ads or with archaic 90's web interfaces.

Thanks for the positive feed back :) I'm open to ideas -- its been a fun little project to learn Scala with.

Just a heads up, anything that allows you to get your external IP address will eventually get hardcoded into a shareware application of some sorts or used by a botnet.

There is a reason all the popular sites are "slow to respond" or make you jump through CAPTCHA or rate-limit hoops.

Find a way to make this profitable please. I'd love to use it, but I don't want it to disappear!

The source code is published.

Source is on github over at https://github.com/joshrendek/scala-ifcfg-api

If you have play 2.2.1 in your path its as simple as running `play dist` and moving the zip over to your server, and running the shell script play creates :)

To avoid relying on external sources, I use expect, to telnet into my router and get the ip address of its public interface. Here's an example expect script.

http://serverfault.com/questions/89114/finding-the-public-ip...

This looks interesting, but my knowledge of networking acronyms is lacking. While I know what RBL is, I'm not sure what AS is. Since I'm having trouble coming up with a search string to give me the answer, I'm asking for some help. Thanks

"Within the Internet, an Autonomous System (AS) is a collection of connected Internet Protocol (IP) routing prefixes under the control of one or more network operators that presents a common, clearly defined routing policy to the Internet", from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_System_Number

Thanks, that helped to clarify things.

This is great, thanks for sharing. I used to use ifconfig.me but somehow it's taking a long time to respond even if you are just using curl. So I'm glad I'll be able to replace it with your site.

Noticed ifconfig.me is very patchy in terms of response time, this tool does look nice if it stays fast.

  $ time curl ifconfig.me
  88.177.189.XX
  curl ifconfig.me  0,01s user 0,01s system 0% cpu 2,517 total
  $

How is this for "cluttered with ads, taking too many seconds to respond"?

I've had the response time vary wildly -- also try opening that up in a browser and you'll see what I mean.

There's also ip.appspot.com, circa 2005

    $ time curl ip.appspot.com
    76.11.33.XXX

    real    0m0.184s
    user    0m0.007s
    sys     0m0.006s

Pretty cool! I've been running http://jsonip.com for a few years too.

Any way in particular that this would be preferable over using desktop tools and shell utilities?

For starters, because you can't use desktop tools to reliably figure out your effective, routed IP address.

Great work!

'/as' and '/rbl' are quite useful.

thanks for sharing this and the source code as well.

oh look another IP info site....

Did I mention http://ifconfig.me/ ?

No IPv6 :(

http://icanhazip.com

There is also ifconfig.me

really useful

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