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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
#22I never knew of him from ip4.me, but I definitely visited his Lego site Brickshelf (https://brickshelf.com/).
Thanks Kevin.
Re: The owner of ip4.me/ip6.me, Kevin Loch, has died
#23A reminder that you do not need websites or an HTTP client to learn your public IP:
dig @resolver1.opendns.com myip.opendns.com TXT +short
dig @ns1.google.com o-o.myaddr.l.google.com TXT +short
Re: The owner of ip4.me/ip6.me, Kevin Loch, has died
#24Oh 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 the…
`curl https://myip.wtf/json` too is nice to use when debugging things
Re: The owner of ip4.me/ip6.me, Kevin Loch, has died
#25Were those addresses used for anything or simple domain squatting?
I'm puzzled why you have been downvoted for asking a genuine question (and all credit to those who have taken time to respond to you).
Perhaps the downvoters would care to explain their actions?
Re: The owner of ip4.me/ip6.me, Kevin Loch, has died
#26Oh 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
#27RIP Kevin. These websites no doubt helped thousands of people over the years.
If anyone is looking for an alternative site to check their v6 and v4 addresses, check out this one here:
Re: The owner of ip4.me/ip6.me, Kevin Loch, has died
#28Were those addresses used for anything or simple domain squatting?
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Re: The owner of ip4.me/ip6.me, Kevin Loch, has died
#29Seems like he passed away in June but maybe the Estate didn't sort out everything until recently?
https://www.brickfanatics.com/tributes-for-founder-lego-webs...
Re: The owner of ip4.me/ip6.me, Kevin Loch, has died
#30Were those addresses used for anything or simple domain squatting?
I'm puzzled why you have been downvoted for asking a genuine question (and all credit to those who have taken time to respond to you). Perhaps the downvoters would care to explain their actions?
The question may be genuine but its phrasing probably suggests an allegation to most readers.