Whats-My-IP-Service without all this crap

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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