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Comment by joshguthrie | Hacker News Reader

  $ 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