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

#41

Seems 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...

It takes time (typically some number of months) to get appointed as the executor of an estate, and then even more time for the executor to get effective control over the estate's assets.

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

#42

A 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 former should be

  dig -4 @resolver1.opendns.com myip.opendns.com A +short
  dig -6 @resolver1.opendns.com myip.opendns.com AAAA +short

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

#43
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 the…

Instead of jq .ip, please use https://ipinfo.io/ip

This API endpoint has its dedicated stack and infrastructure to support unlimited lookups.

Also, for IPv6 connection use: https://v6.ipinfo.io/ip

PS: I am the DevRel of IPinfo.

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

#44
post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

We are experimenting with some design choices as we try to highlight all the IP metadata we have and move towards being an "internet data" company instead of just an IP location company.

I highly recommend you check out the page: https://ipinfo.io/myip

I understand the data we have for your IP address is not front and center anymore. We have gone through several iterations of designs for our homepage, so if you have any suggestions, I will relay them to our team.

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

#45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Also protocol specific hosts:

https://json.ipv4.myip.wtf/

https://json.ipv6.myip.wtf/

https://json.myip.wtf/

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

#46

Seems 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...

It takes time (typically some number of months) to get appointed as the executor of an estate, and then even more time for the executor to get effective control over the estate's assets.

Ah yeah, I missed part of my response I think. I was trying to say that he didn't pass away recently, but maybe we just noticed it because the estate (or the executor) just started to manage this asset and left that message in the domain.

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

#47
post #25

Were 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?

I didn't downvote, but the question was answerable by simply visiting the domains typed into the comment.

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

#48

A 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).

Unless you're on a network that blocks all dns traffic not to their own dns servers.

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

#49
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.

Me too, but that's a whopping 5 characters more. Think of all the extra keyboard wear!

I do like the curl-ability of that one a lot, though, and on my own computer I can just configure an alias or shell function for it :)

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

#50
post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Annoyingly, they no longer show your IP on their web homepage.

We are experimenting with some design choices as we try to highlight all the IP metadata we have and move towards being an "internet data" company instead of just an IP location company. I highly recommend you check out the page: https://ipinfo.io/myip I understand the data we have for your IP address is not front and center anymore. We have gone through several iterations of designs for our homepage, so if you have…

"I don’t want anyone to see our address and opening hours without also reading through our values, our mission statement, and board of directors"
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