I know that a lot of VPN users have it as a homepage to their browser, that is why I wanted to publish this warning.
You can replace it with:
Glad somebody else posted it. Glad it still exists. Some of the internet is still hilarious and amazing.
There is also ifconfig.me which works amazingly on the command like with
curl ifconfig.meThe same works with ipinfo.io, it’s what I usually use.
Awesome, good to know. Nice it has more info in a JSON blob.
At that point just run ifconfig
That won’t tell you the public IP unless you’re on a directly-connected machine
That’s not how this works. That’s not how any of this works.
exept it does? At least in ipv6 land
i could see a situation where a host that only speaks IPv4 would need to add my IP to an allow list, and therefore I would need to check what IPv4 address I appear as, even though I am running IPv6.
Was expecting a robotic voice, is this AI?
It exists before AI was a thing. Just a dude recording himself and making a software that plays it relatively smoothly.
The domain was registered in 2012
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This is the one true answer.
Just an IP, nothing else. And easily curlable.
Is it malicious code hosted on the website? Or are they saying that visiting that site is an indicator of compromise because they’ve malware commonly visiting that site?
Looks like the domain registration expired, according to https://lookup.icann.org/en/lookup
Fortinet marked the website as “malicious”, but it doesn’t seem to give an explanation as to why it’s been given that classification (looked up here: https://www.fortiguard.com/webfilter)
Kasperky wanted an account (and possibly a subscription) to look up the website and I’m not going to give them any of my information so I’m not sure if they gave an explanation as to why the website is flagged.
Visiting https://thisismyip.com/ as of now just redirects to a Namecheap landing page so I doubt there’s any actual malware on the website. I think Fortinet and Kaspersky preemptively marked it for when a malicious actor picks up the name and starts hosting actual viruses.
Hosted on the website.
I have DuckDuckGo set as my default search engine, so I just search for “ip” and Bob’s your uncle
icanhaz tools:
My goto has always been https://www.whatismyip.com/, or https://www.wimi.com/ for short.
It’s a good old service, but unfortunately it’s so old that it doesn’t support IPv6 connections
I just checked with curl and it showed me my IPv6 IP
I always use check.torproject.org. If I’m not on Tor, it gives me my IP, if I am on Tor it verifies that. Good for both.
For us Linux users (BTW), this wtfismyip script just dumps a text string. Just save it to /usr/local/bin or some other location in your path and make it executable, and install the lynx text www browser if you don’t have it installed already.
There are a lot of ways to do this, but this works and I’m lazy…
root@tux:~# cat $(which wtfismyip) #!/bin/bash printf "%s\n" "Your fucking IP address is $(lynx -dump -nolist http://wtfismyip.com/text)."root@tux:~# wtfismyip Your fucking IP address is 13.107.226.41.You can just search ip on ddg and it’ll show you
curl ifconfig.meNot sure about Linux, but on a Mac you can put it on your clipboard with
curl ifconfig.me | pbcopyxh ifconfig.me | wl-copy👍
Oookay, I guess it detects the user agent and only sends the IP number when it detects curl. Using xh did not work as intended.
Huh. Is it going by user-agent or something? Weird.
Our own tiny one goes by the Accept header. If xh sets that to text/html you’ll get an HTML webpage though.
Some sites go by that, some go by user agent. I believe xh can fake it’s user agent, if I’m not mistaken.
A good compromise would be to go by known user agents, but also heed the accept header. 👍
