Whats-My-IP-Service without all this crap

Re:Whats-My-IP-Service without all this crap by dirtbox on Wednesday January 27, 2010 @09:49AM (#1080583)

With a heavy heart, I'm deleting my bookmark to http://www.moanmyip.com/

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Re:Whats-My-IP-Service without all this crap by chaosmachine on Wednesday January 27, 2010 @09:53AM (#1080592)

A bit easier to spell/remember.

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Re:Whats-My-IP-Service without all this crap by warfangle on Wednesday January 27, 2010 @10:42AM (#1080703)

Given that it's a .jp subdomain, it's likely geared towards Japanese. Denisu is a valid shortening of DNS - the characters to spell it in katakana would be デニス, and potentially easier to remember for Japanese than "whatismyip," a fully qualified english query. Unless someone out there who knows more about Japanese than I do (admittedly, very little) can confirm that デニス or でにす is an actual word (google translate detected でにす as a phrase, giving me "su to the," which makes sense grammatically..)

Funny enough, it's also the romanjification of "dennis" (one of the first hits on google for it is dennis rodman's japanese wikipedia article).

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Re:Whats-My-IP-Service without all this crap by shizcakes on Wednesday January 27, 2010 @10:23AM (#1080659)

Usually those services tell you your public IP.

This service says my IP is 10.1.3.46, and while technically correct, useless.

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Re:Whats-My-IP-Service without all this crap by joss82 on Wednesday January 27, 2010 @11:25AM (#1080822)

How can it give you your private IP address? I'm curious...

Is there a javascript call to list the IP addresses of any machine? That feels very insecure to me.

EDIT: Sorry I forgot to turn on my joke detector.

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Re:Whats-My-IP-Service without all this crap by jfr on Wednesday January 27, 2010 @11:47AM (#1080881)

It probably gets it from the X-Forwarded-For HTTP reader inserted by his intranet proxy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Forwarded-For

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Re:Whats-My-IP-Service without all this crap by henrikschroder on Wednesday January 27, 2010 @11:30AM (#1080832)

Uh, no? Knowing your public IP is valuable information sometimes and you need an external source to tell you that. Knowing your machine's IP is not something you should go to a website to look up, just check your local config.

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Re:Whats-My-IP-Service without all this crap by denisu on Thursday January 28, 2010 @07:43AM (#1083626)

Thanks for the feedback, it should now display the correct HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR-header if available.

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Re:Whats-My-IP-Service without all this crap by kordless on Wednesday January 27, 2010 @11:15AM (#1080781)

Pics or it didn't happen.

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Re:Whats-My-IP-Service without all this crap by cookiecaper on Wednesday January 27, 2010 @10:37AM (#1080689)

I've always been partial to http://ipchicken.com . It's got commercial motives, but it's easy to spell, it's easy to ask people to go to it and have them remember, and the numbers are giant and readable. This is all good!

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Re:Whats-My-IP-Service without all this crap by viraptor on Wednesday January 27, 2010 @04:49PM (#1081997)

For some additional crap, check http://www.ipspotting.com/ - also easy to remember and fun in new places.

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Re:Whats-My-IP-Service without all this crap by Steve0 on Wednesday January 27, 2010 @09:48AM (#1080581)

Now an easy to remember domain name and you're good to go! edit: http://tinyurl.com/givemyip

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Re:Whats-My-IP-Service without all this crap by Frazzydee on Wednesday January 27, 2010 @09:50AM (#1080585)

http://whatismyip.org has an easy-to-remember URL and no crap either.

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Re:Whats-My-IP-Service without all this crap by wglb on Wednesday January 27, 2010 @10:06AM (#1080621)

Ah, but i do find the speed test available at http://www.whatismyip.com/ useful.

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Re:Whats-My-IP-Service without all this crap by dopkew on Wednesday January 27, 2010 @12:16PM (#1080960)

I just found this great site giving extensive information:

http://ip-lookup.net/

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Re:Whats-My-IP-Service without all this crap by eli on Wednesday January 27, 2010 @10:27AM (#1080667)

Or just paste this in a .php file:

<?php print $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; ?>

Then you've got the IP address without any frills.

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Re:Whats-My-IP-Service without all this crap by ralphc on Wednesday January 27, 2010 @10:51AM (#1080722)

For you minimalists: http://checkip.dyndns.org/

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Re:Whats-My-IP-Service without all this crap by webignition on Wednesday January 27, 2010 @11:02AM (#1080751)

The full response of which being:

<html><head><title>Current IP Check</title></head><body>Current IP Address: xx.xx.xx.xx</body></html>

That's surely not minimal. What you need is a simple plain-text: xx.xx.xx.xx.

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Re:Whats-My-IP-Service without all this crap by kordless on Wednesday January 27, 2010 @11:13AM (#1080774)

or even better, an easy-to-parse key value pair:

ip=208.128.7.7

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Re:Whats-My-IP-Service without all this crap by weavejester on Wednesday January 27, 2010 @11:17AM (#1080791)

I'd contend that "208.128.7.7" is a more minimal, and useful, return value than "ip=208.128.7.7".

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Re:Whats-My-IP-Service without all this crap by tfh on Wednesday January 27, 2010 @11:37AM (#1080854)

"ip=208.128.7.7" would be actually nice if the output would be like:

  ip=208.128.7.7
  location=france
  ua=Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel blah blah

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Re:Whats-My-IP-Service without all this crap by kordless on Wednesday January 27, 2010 @12:03PM (#1080929)

Yes, I agree, especially for shell scripts and such. A service should give me 1) plain text, 2) key value pairs, 3) json, and 4) human readable/copyable output.

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Re:Whats-My-IP-Service without all this crap by sant0sk1 on Wednesday January 27, 2010 @11:18AM (#1080796)

plaintext ftw: http://my-ip.heroku.com

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Re:Whats-My-IP-Service without all this crap by judofyr on Wednesday January 27, 2010 @10:09AM (#1080627)

http://myip.dk/ is short and simple.

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Re:Whats-My-IP-Service without all this crap by tejji on Wednesday January 27, 2010 @11:37PM (#1083030)

here is another one http://tejji.com/ip/my-ip-address.aspx

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