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The owner of ip4.me/ip6.me, Kevin Loch, has died

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Re: The owner of ip4.me/ip6.me, Kevin Loch, has died

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Post by wizzwizz4 »

lxgr wrote: post #9

Oh no, this has been my go-to site for connectivity tests (as example.com seems to be cached fairly aggressively by my browsers and that has misled me in the past). Ad-free, minimal, does exactly what it needs to and nothing more. Rest in peace! Edit: All these (great and much appreciated!) responses of alternatives are making me wonder if this should in fact be a standardized service that could then be offered as a…

If you have the resources to maintain it, you can contact the estate. (They'd like to sell the domains, so unless they're bundled with Brickshelf the highest bidder will probably be a traffic-farming company or something, but you never know.)

Re: The owner of ip4.me/ip6.me, Kevin Loch, has died

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Post by PhilipRoman »

lxgr wrote: post #9

Oh no, this has been my go-to site for connectivity tests (as example.com seems to be cached fairly aggressively by my browsers and that has misled me in the past). Ad-free, minimal, does exactly what it needs to and nothing more. Rest in peace! Edit: All these (great and much appreciated!) responses of alternatives are making me wonder if this should in fact be a standardized service that could then be offered as a…

ifconfig.me is a similar service which I often use. It has a nice feature that if you do "curl ifconfig.me", you'll get only a string with the ip address, no markup.

Re: The owner of ip4.me/ip6.me, Kevin Loch, has died

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Post by freedomben »

lxgr wrote: post #9

Oh no, this has been my go-to site for connectivity tests (as example.com seems to be cached fairly aggressively by my browsers and that has misled me in the past). Ad-free, minimal, does exactly what it needs to and nothing more. Rest in peace! Edit: All these (great and much appreciated!) responses of alternatives are making me wonder if this should in fact be a standardized service that could then be offered as a…

I've been using ipinfo.io now for several years and have been very pleased with them.

You can `curl https://ipinfo.io/` and get a JSON blob back with info on your current IP. If you pass an IP explicitly you can get info back on it, for example `curl https://ipinfo.io/104.26.7.98`. Easy to combine with jq also for use in scripts: `curl https://ipinfo.io/104.26.7.98 | jq -r '.ip'`

For personal use it's free, and they have reasonable pricing for large volume. No affiliation on my part, just a happy user.

Re: The owner of ip4.me/ip6.me, Kevin Loch, has died

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Post by merb »

lxgr wrote: post #9

Oh no, this has been my go-to site for connectivity tests (as example.com seems to be cached fairly aggressively by my browsers and that has misled me in the past). Ad-free, minimal, does exactly what it needs to and nothing more. Rest in peace! Edit: All these (great and much appreciated!) responses of alternatives are making me wonder if this should in fact be a standardized service that could then be offered as a…

I use ip.me it's not add free, but in curl you can have an ad free version by doing curl -4 ip.me or curl -6 ip.me since it will only send the ip when it detects curl I guess.

Re: The owner of ip4.me/ip6.me, Kevin Loch, has died

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Post by [deleted] »

lxgr wrote: post #9

Oh no, this has been my go-to site for connectivity tests (as example.com seems to be cached fairly aggressively by my browsers and that has misled me in the past). Ad-free, minimal, does exactly what it needs to and nothing more. Rest in peace! Edit: All these (great and much appreciated!) responses of alternatives are making me wonder if this should in fact be a standardized service that could then be offered as a…

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Re: The owner of ip4.me/ip6.me, Kevin Loch, has died

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Post by kachapopopow »

lxgr wrote: post #9

Oh no, this has been my go-to site for connectivity tests (as example.com seems to be cached fairly aggressively by my browsers and that has misled me in the past). Ad-free, minimal, does exactly what it needs to and nothing more. Rest in peace! Edit: All these (great and much appreciated!) responses of alternatives are making me wonder if this should in fact be a standardized service that could then be offered as a…

checkip.amazonaws.com is my goto, not as short tho :/

Re: The owner of ip4.me/ip6.me, Kevin Loch, has died

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Post by toomuchtodo »

> In Kevin’s own words on kevinloch.com: “I am also an amateur physicist, programmer, photographer, independent film producer (at WTF Productions) and AFOL (Adult Fan of Lego).” Kevin was also passionate about any and all things space related: the sky, the stars, and beyond; trying to find the meaning in how things work, why they work, and what would make them work better. His latest passion after moving back to Reston was soaking in the skyline from the rooftop of his apartment building and bicycling the paths of Reston and beyond.

https://www.loudounfuneralchapel.com/obituaries/Kevin-Loch/#...

https://bsrender.io/

https://nensus.com/kl-net/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lAuXWARqt8

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10414562/

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