WAN IP Checker

[comaX]

Hi everyone !

So, in a time when I was in need of retrieving my public IP for a script, I found myself unable to find a decent service that would provide me with it.
All I could find was some site giving you your IP and offering this and that for your protection or whatsoever. Sometimes it's even "obfusated" through javascript... All the "whatmyip"-like are for me a useless pile of... you know.

Enough of that, I thought. I decided to create such a "service" :

http://ip.comax.fr

It displays your IP. Nothing more, nothing less. It won't search through proxies or anything. It only displays the IP connected to the page.

If you need a public IP in a script, just do a curl or wget : you won't have any parsing to do. Just the plain IP.
Example :

(uiserver):uXXX:~ > curl http://ip.comax.fr
82.165.204.199
(uiserver):uXXX:~ >

Feel free to use it as much as you want, for whatever you want. It's there, for free (duh!)

I hope you'll find it useful !

Cheers !

Edit : It's seems like there are other fine websites as well, so here they are :
http://whatismyip.ORG (do NOT mistake that for the shitty .com brother)
http://ifconfig.me/ (very neat for CLI, check the web interface for more info)

[scottm99]

Thanks very much...I can certainly find some use for it

[KaOzGrUnT]

Great idea

[shadowzero]

I'm confused, http://whatismyip.org/ does exactly what your site does. No ads, no javascript or html, just plain text displayed on the browser, and retrievable by curl.

[comaX]

Speaking of being confused... I'm now right in the middle of great confusefulness...

Oh wait, check that : http://www.whatismyip.com/

Nicely played guys, nicely played. And when you Google "my ip", the 6 first results are what I was talking about. The seventh is yours (never noticed before...), and the rest is as the six first!

Anyway, it's there, do what thou will

[shadowzero]

Ah ok, no I was just wondering if I missed something. The more tools the better, if one goes down, I can use the other. Cheers.

[comaX]

Well, it's seems I was the one who missed something !

The more tools the better, if one goes down, I can use the other.

Cheers to that !

[TAPE]

Nice and clean

Another one ;

curl ifconfig.me

[comaX]

@ Tape, you're welcome ! That and shadowzero's post make me think : let's make a damn list. So, post the clean Wan ip checkers you've got, and I'll update my first post
As shadowzero said, the more services, the better !

[pentrite]

Hello.
There is another over ssl:

wget -q -O - https://secure.informaction.com/ipecho/ | sed -e 's/<.*$//'

Thanks for sharing.