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Get own public IP address

Terminal - Get own public IP address
wget -qO- whatismyip.org
2009-03-27 10:57:57
User: kobayashison
Functions: wget
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Get own public IP address
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Alternatives

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Terminal - Alternatives
curl -s checkip.dyndns.org | grep -Eo '[0-9\.]+'
2009-10-26 09:15:31
User: hugin
Functions: grep
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What is my ip?
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What others think

Doesn't work, however

curl -s myip.dk |grep '"Box"' | egrep -o '[0-9.]+'

does work.

Comment by tebeka 220 weeks and 3 days ago

Doesn't work, however

curl -s myip.dk |grep '"Box"' | egrep -o '[0-9.]+'

does work.

Comment by tebeka 220 weeks and 3 days ago

The same with wget:

wget -O - -q myip.dk |grep '"Box"' | egrep -o '[0-9.]+'
Comment by PabloX 220 weeks and 3 days ago

You guys are using the wrong site :-P

wget -qO- whatismyip.org

It doesn't have any HTML or markup, just a plain ip.

try

ping $( wget -qO- whatismyip.org )

Will work flawlessly.

If you find yourself using a external IP a lot, consider instead using a dynamic DNS client like http://no-ip.com or a similar service. Free, east setup, and they have open source daemons to update it automatically. This gives you an actual named URL, and you won't ever need to use this command. On ubuntu, run

sudo aptitude search dyndns-client

Or search for "dynamic DNS" in your package manager to find some sites with supported services.

Comment by clockworkavian 220 weeks and 3 days ago

@clockworkavian: Thanks for the tip about whatismyip.org!

I don't want to install/use dyndns-client every time I need an IP in a script...

Comment by kobayashison 220 weeks and 1 day ago

Yep... 1st one works like a charm. No grep or egrep needed. Just Ip plain text. It's perfect. You don't rely on the web designer... Because on the checkip one, if the web designer decide to do any change to the page, it might not work anymore. That's exactly what happened to the propose command on lifehacker, where it is proposed to use myip.dk. This site change the page layout, and bam... The command is useless.

Comment by Superkikim 88 weeks and 5 days ago

Regarding dynamic DNS update, that is exactly why I am looking for such command.

I use ZoneEdit.com, and I have no idea when my ISP changes my IP. I made a script to update the zone every 5 minutes. But I've been blocked by zoneedit.com because I'm making to many updates, even if the site can tell "no update needed" they don't like people "spamming" with update requests.

I will now add a command to check by myself if the IP changed every 1 or 5 minutes, and if it did, then I will update the zone at zoneedit.com. Then, every request will be for a good reason :-) This will also show me at what frequency the ISP changes my IP address.

Comment by Superkikim 88 weeks and 5 days ago

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