Myexternalip.com Website Review

Sometimes, when looking at it from the outside of the network, the IP address of a device seems to be different from the one as*igned in the I switched on ipv4.myexternalip.com which answers only to requests coming in via IPv4. ipv6.myexternalip.com will do the same for IPv6. This might come in handy when you test your setup or toy around with IPv6. accepting donations (small, big, does not matter). If you want to donate by other means: contact me. Throttle: some folks out there have either running curl in a while-loop or a crazy understanding of how often their external ip decided to throttle the answer a little bit. The good folks among you won't hardly notice it at all, the. strange. folks might. handholding. Recently I watched at the load and then on some logs and on some more logs and on some tcpdumps: One machine out there wanted to know it's IP at the rate of ~ 100 times a second. Heart-warming. Especially when the IP does not change at all. And especially when the And you, young fella at 118.175.31.x. you are banned! :) With IPv6 the whole NATting is kind of pointless and most devices will have a 'real' IP address with IPv6 but you still can use Checkout some of the examples on how to make use of that feature So, how to use this site in your environment (other than just surfing it with a browser)? filter level. Sorry, but I do not see the need to retrieve the IP more than maybe once every minute, 30 requests per minute is good will on > curl is a command line tool for transferring data with URL syntax, > supporting FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, TELNET, DICT, > LDAP, LDAPS, FILE, IMAP, SMTP, POP3, RTMP and RTSP. curl supports > SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form > based upload, proxies, cookies, user+pas*word authentication (Basic, > Digest, NTLM, Negotiate, kerberos...), file transfer resume, proxy > GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, > HTTPS and FTP, the most widely-used Internet protocols. It is a