I know that a lot of VPN users have it as a homepage to their browser, that is why I wanted to publish this warning.
You can replace it with:
ip.me also works well in the terminal with
curl. The default response is plaintextFor us Linux users (BTW), this wtfismyip script just dumps a text string. Just save it to /usr/local/bin or some other location in your path and make it executable, and install the lynx text www browser if you don’t have it installed already.
There are a lot of ways to do this, but this works and I’m lazy…
root@tux:~# cat $(which wtfismyip) #!/bin/bash printf "%s\n" "Your fucking IP address is $(lynx -dump -nolist http://wtfismyip.com/text)."root@tux:~# wtfismyip Your fucking IP address is 13.107.226.41.
I use thiscomputer.info
It’s just text. It shows a bit more than just your IP. And it’s easy to remember.
Glad somebody else posted it. Glad it still exists. Some of the internet is still hilarious and amazing.
IP chicken is another option
There is also ifconfig.me which works amazingly on the command like with
curl ifconfig.meThe same works with ipinfo.io, it’s what I usually use.
Awesome, good to know. Nice it has more info in a JSON blob.
At that point just run ifconfig
That won’t tell you the public IP unless you’re on a directly-connected machine
That’s not how this works. That’s not how any of this works.
exept it does? At least in ipv6 land
i could see a situation where a host that only speaks IPv4 would need to add my IP to an allow list, and therefore I would need to check what IPv4 address I appear as, even though I am running IPv6.
icanhaz tools:
This is the one true answer.
Just an IP, nothing else. And easily curlable.
I have DuckDuckGo set as my default search engine, so I just search for “ip” and Bob’s your uncle
Was expecting a robotic voice, is this AI?
It exists before AI was a thing. Just a dude recording himself and making a software that plays it relatively smoothly.
The domain was registered in 2012
🤣
It’s a good old service, but unfortunately it’s so old that it doesn’t support IPv6 connections
I just checked with curl and it showed me my IPv6 IP
Is it malicious code hosted on the website? Or are they saying that visiting that site is an indicator of compromise because they’ve malware commonly visiting that site?
Looks like the domain registration expired, according to https://lookup.icann.org/en/lookup
Fortinet marked the website as “malicious”, but it doesn’t seem to give an explanation as to why it’s been given that classification (looked up here: https://www.fortiguard.com/webfilter)
Kasperky wanted an account (and possibly a subscription) to look up the website and I’m not going to give them any of my information so I’m not sure if they gave an explanation as to why the website is flagged.
Visiting https://thisismyip.com/ as of now just redirects to a Namecheap landing page so I doubt there’s any actual malware on the website. I think Fortinet and Kaspersky preemptively marked it for when a malicious actor picks up the name and starts hosting actual viruses.
Hosted on the website.
