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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
#32Oh 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 :/
I was recently looking for IPv4/IPv6-only HTTP services hosted by major CDNs (for https://github.com/pmarks-net/ipvfoo/issues/60), and found these:
Cloudflare: https://ipv4.icanhazip.com + https://ipv6.icanhazip.com
Akamai: https://ipv4.whatismyip.akamai.com + https://ipv6.whatismyip.akamai.com
The problem with https://checkip.amazonaws.com is that it neither supports IPv6, nor claims that it will remain IPv4-only, so it's not clear what you'll get in the future.
Re: The owner of ip4.me/ip6.me, Kevin Loch, has died
#33A 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 dig can be replaced with any DNS lookup utility (nslookup, drill, etc).
The open DNS query failed for me with: "Query A or AAAA for your source address as seen by the resolver" But, the google nameserver did work. Thanks!
Re: The owner of ip4.me/ip6.me, Kevin Loch, has died
#34Oh 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'll just.. leave this here
Re: The owner of ip4.me/ip6.me, Kevin Loch, has died
#35Oh 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'll just.. leave this here https://cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/trace
That’s a lot worse to type, but good to know.
Re: The owner of ip4.me/ip6.me, Kevin Loch, has died
#36Oh 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 usually use `curl ifconfig.me`
Re: The owner of ip4.me/ip6.me, Kevin Loch, has died
#37> 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 Rest…
Also you can watch his memorial service here: https://www.youtube.com/live/YbnPeUgHGu8?t=1271
Re: The owner of ip4.me/ip6.me, Kevin Loch, has died
#38Oh 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…
Annoyingly, they no longer show your IP on their web homepage.
Re: The owner of ip4.me/ip6.me, Kevin Loch, has died
#39Oh 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…
icanhazip.com provides a similar service and has a good story behind it [0]
[0] https://blog.apnic.net/2021/06/17/how-a-small-free-ip-tool-s...
Re: The owner of ip4.me/ip6.me, Kevin Loch, has died
#40Oh 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…
For services like this, I always use my own domain which can easily be re-mapped or hosted myself. E.g. "checkip.mydomain.com"