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Whats-My-IP-Service without all this crap

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Re: Whats-My-IP-Service without all this crap

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Post by warfangle »

chaosmachine wrote: post #5

http://whatismyip.org/ A bit easier to spell/remember.

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).

Re: Whats-My-IP-Service without all this crap

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Post by kordless »

webignition wrote: post #13
ralphc wrote: post #12

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

The full response of which being: Current IP Check Current IP Address: xx.xx.xx.xx That's surely not minimal. What you need is a simple plain-text: xx.xx.xx.xx.

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

ip=208.128.7.7

Re: Whats-My-IP-Service without all this crap

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Post by weavejester »

kordless wrote: post #14
webignition wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The full response of which being: Current IP Check Current IP Address: xx.xx.xx.xx That's surely not minimal. What you need is a simple plain-text: xx.xx.xx.xx.

or even better, an easy-to-parse key value pair: ip=208.128.7.7

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

Re: Whats-My-IP-Service without all this crap

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Post by joss82 »

shizcakes wrote: post #8
chaosmachine wrote: post #5

http://whatismyip.org/ A bit easier to spell/remember.

Usually those services tell you your public IP. This service says my IP is 10.1.3.46, and while technically correct, useless.

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.

Re: Whats-My-IP-Service without all this crap

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Post by henrikschroder »

shizcakes wrote: post #8
chaosmachine wrote: post #5

http://whatismyip.org/ A bit easier to spell/remember.

Usually those services tell you your public IP. This service says my IP is 10.1.3.46, and while technically correct, useless.

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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